Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Although best known for developing the electromagnetic telegraph, Samuel Morse began his career as an artist. He ...

In 1839, Samuel Morse was in Paris to obtain a patent for the electro-magnetic telegraph he had developed in America, when he caught wind of another scientific wonder of the age: the daguerreotype.

On April 27, the world celebrates Morse Code Day and celebrates the birthday of Samuel Morse, the creator of the ingenious ...

Samuel F. B. Morse, Gallery of the Louvre, 1831-1833, oil on canvas, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection © Yale University Art Gallery ...

When Samuel Morse died in 1872, Chicago’s mayor offered an effusive elegy to the telegraph’s pioneer, as well he might. Without Morse’s contributions to the development of telegraphy, Joseph Medill ...

Morse code is nearly 200 years old and can be used to quickly transmit messages locally or around the world, although there ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York's Hudson Valley. The 14,000-square-foot ...

Morse sent a preliminary request for a patent to Henry L. Ellsworth, the nation’s first commissioner of patents, who had been a classmate at Yale, and in 1837, with the country in one of the worst ...