A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...

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 ...

The great portrait painter and inventor who will forever be memorialized in a series of dots and dashes. Frank Jewett Mather Jr. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...

This week (May 24) in 1844, Professor Samuel F.B. Morse sat in the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., surrounded by members of Congress, who had come to witness history. Morse complied, ...

Thanks to Samuel F.B. Morse, communication changed rapidly, and has been changing ever faster since. He invented the electric telegraph in 1832. It took six more years for him to standardize a code ...

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“What hath God wrought?” On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sat amongst a gathering of Congressmen in the U.S. Capitol Building. He transmitted this simple and profound question from the Bible’s Book of ...

The 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was observed quietly Sunday by his granddaughter, Ms. Clara Morse, by the placing of a bouquet in his memory on the ...

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