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Birth
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born April 27, 1791
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Parents
The first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse who was also a geographer and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese . -
School
Samuel Morse enters Yale College at age fourteen. He hears lectures on electricity from Benjamin Silliman and Jeremiah Day. While at Yale, he earns money by painting small portraits of friends, classmates, and teachers. -
Graduation
Samuel Morse graduated from Yale College and returns to Charlestown, Massachusetts. Despite his wishes to be a painter and encouragement from the famed American painter Washington Allston, Morse's parents plan for him to be a bookseller's apprentice. He becomes a clerk for Daniel Mallory, his father's Boston book publisher. -
Art school
In July, Morse's parents relent and let him set sail for England with Washington Allston. He attends the Royal Academy of Arts in London. -
Studio
In October, Samuel Morse returns to the United States and Morse opens an art studio in Boston. -
Marriage
On September 29, Lucretia Pickering Walker and Morse are married in Concord, New Hampshire. -
National Academy of Design
January in New York, Samuel Morse becomes a founder and first president of the National Academy of Design, which has been established in reaction to the conservative American Academy of Fine Arts. Morse is president on and off for nineteen years. -
Death of father
On June 9, his father, Jedidiah Morse, dies. -
Mothers death
His mother, Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese Morse, dies. -
Ideas
The American scientist Joseph Henry announces his discovery of a powerful electromagnet made from many layers of insulated wire. Demonstrating how such a magnet can send electric signals over long distances, he suggests the possibility of the telegraph. -
Shows friends telegraph
In Autumn, Samuel Morse constructs a recording telegraph with a moving paper ribbon and demonstrates it to several friends and acquaintances. -
the invention
By November, a message can be sent through ten miles of wire arranged on reels in Dr. Gale's university lecture room. In September, Alfred Vail, an acquaintance of Morse, witnesses a demonstration of the telegraph. He is soon taken on as a partner with Morse and Gale because of his financial resources, mechanical skills, and access to his family's iron works for building telegraph models. -
the traitor
Dr. Charles T. Jackson, Morse's acquaintance from the 1832 Sully voyage, now claims to be the inventor of the telegraph. -
united state patent
Samuel Morse is granted a United States patent for his telegraph. Morse opens a daguerreotype portrait studio in New York with John William Draper. -
U.S. comissioner
Morse serves as a United States commissioner at the Paris Universal Exposition. -
Morses statue
On June 10, a statue of Morse is unveiled in Central Park in New York City. With much fanfare, Morse sends a "farewell" telegraph message around the world from New York. -
death
On April 2, Samuel Morse dies in New York City at eighty-one years of age. He is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn. -
now inventions
samuls invention allowed communication over distances for human beings without him we would not have the telephone.
