Samuel Morse (nonfiction): Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
|||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|telegraph]]. | 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]]. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
| Line 23: | Line 25: | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse Samuel Morse] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse Samuel Morse] @ Wikipedia | ||
[[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
| Line 31: | Line 31: | ||
[[Category:Painters (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:Painters (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:People (nonfiction)]] | [[Category:People (nonfiction)]] | ||
Latest revision as of 07:53, 19 September 2018
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.
In the News
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 telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
June 20, 1840: Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.
Fiction cross-reference
Nonfiction cross-reference
External links:
- Samuel Morse @ Wikipedia