Samuel Finley Breese Morse

✶April 27, 1791

†April 2, 1872

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer and the namesake of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

American inventor and painter (1791–1872)

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