Samuel Morse - His life, work and inventions¶
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- He began as a painter and had the interest of developing a way to communicate electronically and began inventing a telegraph with little to no knowledge of the science behind it.
American painter and inventor who is best remembered today for his invention of single-wire telegraph system and the co-inventor of the Morse code1
During his college years, he earned money by painting portraits and studied the subjects of religious philosophy, mathematics and science of horse1
- He saw the flaw with communication and that pushed him to try to better it.
Devastated by this news and the inability of the current message system to give him news faster, he started devising a plan to create a new way of fast long distance communication.1
After finding out that information sent via copper cables travels instantaneously over great distances, Morse started devising the plan for the creation of single-wire telegraph.1
- He ran into the same problem many scientist did. Distance was a problem for telegraphs.
At the same moment, Samuel Morse struggled with his designs of the telegraph. The inability of sending information to great distance came to end when he received help from the New York University's Professor Leonard Gale.1
1: Samuel Morse - His life, work and inventions | syndication link¶
"What hath God wrought" from the Supreme Court chamber in Washington D.C. to the B&O's Mount Clare Station in Baltimore. To this day, this demonstration is remembered as the starting point of telegraph's expansion across the world.1
During his life Morse received substantial amounts of honors, recognitions and awards from many countries around the world.1