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File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction) |May 24, 1844: Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction) |telegraph line]] between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|June 20, 1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph]].
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an 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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