Samuel Morse!
Content!
n  Background!
n  Family
& Roots!
n  Education!
n  Inventions!
n  Morse Code!
n  Contributions!
n  References!
Background!
n  Born
in April 27th, 1791 (Charlestown,
Massachusetts)!
n  Died in April 2nd, 1872 (New York)!
n  Invented the Telegraph!
n  Invented Morse Code!
n  An accomplished painter!
Family & Roots!
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Father is Jedidiah
Morse!
Mother is Elizabith
Breeze!
2 Brothers Sidney
and Richard Morse!
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Married to Lucretia
Pickering Walker!
Died After 4th child
was born!
Married again to
Sarah Elizabeth
Griswold!
Had 4 children!
Education!
n  Philips
Academy!
n  Yale University
Majoring in Mathematics, Religious
Philosophy and Science!
n  Graduated from Yale in 1810 with Phi
Beta Kappa Honors!
Inventions!
n  Invented
the Telegram!
n  1832 met Charles Thomas Jackson and
developed a concept of a telegraph with a
single wire!
n  First telegraph line was opened on May
24th 1844!
Morse Code!
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Method of
transmitting textual
information by on-off
tones, lights and
clicks!
Each character is
represented in a
unique sequence of
dots and dashes!
Contributions!
n  Paved
the way of communication in the
early-mid 1800 s!
n  Morse code was used as an international
standard for maritime communications till
1999!
n  Simple, versatile and highly efficient way
of communication!
References!
n  http://inventors.about.com/od/
tstartinventions/a/telegraph.htm!
n  http://www.notablebiographies.com/MoNi/Morse-Samuel-F-B.html!
n  http://samuelmorsebiography.com/!
n  http://www.omniglot.com/writing/
morsecode.htm!