Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Co-Inventor, Wireless Telegraph & Morse Code
Born: 04/27/1791 (Charlestown (Boston), MA)
Died: 04/02/1872 (New York, NY)
Demographics:
Male; Caucasian
Profession:
Inventor, Painter
Education:
Yale (1810); Royal Academy of Arts
Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Details:
Professor of Art, New York University (1832)
Historical Info:
Inventor, Electromagnetic Telegraph. First complete telegraph line and message in Morse code sent 5/1/1844 and read "What hath God wrought."
Family:
m. Lucretia Pickering Walker (1819), Sarah Elizabeth Griswold (1848)
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