Nearly 190 years ago on Jan. 6, 1838, Samuel Morse revolutionized global communication with the unveiling of his new ...

January 6th is a date steeped in remarkable events that have shaped history across the globe. Moving back in time, on this ...

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 ...

Beginning on Sunday, June 3, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., will exhibit Samuel Morse's painting Gallery of the Louvre. The American better known for inventing the telegraph and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

NEW YORK, April 8, 2009 – In conjunction with the Asia Society Museum exhibition Asian Journeys: Collecting Art in Post-war America, Samuel C. Morse, Professor of the History of Art and Asian ...