Samuel Morse, the man credited with inventing the telegraph, was also a painter, and not a bad one for an American of his day. His work was flat and conventional, but he had considerable success as a ...

In 1835, Samuel F.B. Morse published a sensational work warning his fellow Americans that the sovereigns of Europe necessarily viewed the United States as an existential threat. Foreign Conspiracy ...

Samuel Morse, as in the Morse code used for telegraph messages, died 131 years ago. Nearly forgotten today, except when mentioned as an “inventor,” Morse not only revolutionized long-distance ...

You're probably already familiar with Samuel Morse's work, thanks to a bunch of dots and dashes. Morse invented his namesake code, a way to communicate using only ...

Carleton Mabee, a historian who won the Pulitzer Prize for his scrupulous and often-scathing biography of the painter and telegraph inventor Samuel Morse, died Dec. 18 at his home in Gardiner, N.Y. He ...

DETROIT — An artistic masterpiece that Samuel F.B. Morse painted in the years before he developed the telegraph is being displayed at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of a traveling exhibition.

Morse painted this self portrait in 1812. Samuel Morse first established himself as a talented painter, but his interest in long-distance communication led to innovations that laid the groundwork for ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Samuel F.B. Morse patented an electric telegraph machine on June 20th 1840.

In 1853, the Supreme Court gave Samuel Morse some bad news. In O'Reilly v. Morse, the justices approved the inventor's patent for part of the telegraph that delivered the Morse code message "What Hath ...

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.

We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone.