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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer and the namesake of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
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science · American inventor and painter (1791–1872) · inventor · physicist · sculptor · painter · university teacher · photographer · writer · artist · also Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuil Morze, Samuel Finley Breeze Morse, Brutus
Born 27 April 1791 · Died 2 April 1872 · Q75698
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2026· 1 entry
2012· 1 entry
Google announced the release of "Gmail Tap", an April Fools' Day joke that allowed users to use Morse Code to send text from their mobile phones
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1975· 2 entries
Awarded National Inventors Hall of Fame (1975).
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Morse was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame
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1872· 3 entries
Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar (English: Order of Glory) [first medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals], set in diamonds, from Sultan Abdülmecid of Turkey
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Died 1872-04-02.
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And was interred at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn
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1871· 1 entry
A bronze statue of Samuel Morse was unveiled in Central Park, New York City
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1866· 1 entry
Proved more durable, and the era of reliable transatlantic telegraph service had begun
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1859· 1 entry
In a ceremony flanked by the Spanish and American flags
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1858· 3 entries
Morse introduced wired communication to Latin America when he established a telegraph system in Puerto Rico, then a Spanish Colony
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Morse was awarded the sum of 400,000 French francs (equivalent to about $80,000 at the time) by the governments of France, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Piedmont, Russia, Sweden, Tuscany, and the Ottoman Empire, eac
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Was also elected a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
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1856· 2 entries
Morse went to Copenhagen and visited the Thorvaldsens Museum, where the sculptor's grave is in the inner courtyard
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Morse traveled to London to help Charles Tilston Bright and Edward Whitehouse test a 2,000-mile-length of spooled cable
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1848· 2 entries
In Utica, New York and had four children
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Morse was elected as a member to the American Philosophical Society
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1847· 1 entry
At the old Beylerbeyi Palace (the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861–1865 on the same location) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid, who personally tested the new invention
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1844· 2 entries
The line was officially opened as Morse sent the now-famous words, "What hath God wrought," from the Supreme Court chamber in the basement of the U
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When news of the Whig Party's nomination of Henry Clay for U
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1843· 1 entry
For construction of an experimental 38-mile (61 km) telegraph line between Washington, D
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1838· 2 entries
Morse and Vail made the first public demonstration of the electric telegraph
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Seeking federal sponsorship for a telegraph line but was not successful
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1837· 1 entry
And helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy
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1836· 1 entry
Ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York under the anti-immigrant Nativist Party's banner, receiving only 1,496 votes
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1835· 1 entry
Under the name of "Brutus", in speaking of "the foreign Emissaries of Popery re-warded in their own country," said: "Where is Bishop Kelly of Richmond, Va
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1832· 2 entries
After his return to the United States, Morse was appointed professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York, now New York University
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Morse encountered Charles Thomas Jackson of Boston, a man who was well schooled in electromagnetism
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1826· 1 entry
Helped found the National Academy of Design in New York City
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1825· 1 entry
Of a heart attack shortly after the birth of their third child
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1815· 1 entry
To return to the United States and begin his full-time career as a painter
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1810· 1 entry
Graduated from Yale with Phi Beta Kappa honors
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1791· 1 entry
Born 1791-04-27.
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