Alphabetical Index Index by Birth Year
Samuel F. B. Morse
* 1791 in Charlestown/MA
+1872 in New York
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American painter and inventor. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter,
in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system
based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of the Morse code
and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
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