Biography of samuel morse

Born April 27, 1791

Charlestown, Massachusetts

Died April 2, 1872

New York, New York

American inventor

"What hath God wrought?"

—First long-distance telegraph message, transmitted from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse gave his name to a long-dominant means of communicating via telegraph—Morse code—and is credited with inventing the telegraph used in the United States.

Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was persuading the federal government to help pay for construction of a demonstration telegraph, a critical step in launching a new era of instantaneous communications across long distances.

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Nevertheless, it is Morse who is credited with inventing Morse code, a method of communication that uses a series of dots and dashes—short sounds and longer ones—that is fundamentally similar to the zeros and ones used by today's computers communicating over the Internet.

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