Biography Of Samuel F. B. Morse

Before the discovery of the telegraph, communication was difficult between long distances. Upon discovery the telegraph, a machine transmitted messages to and from different places. Once the telegraph became popular, the telegraph was used for fast communication . There were two men majorly involved in the creation of the telegraph. The man that created the telegraph created morse code, which was involved in many other future forms of technology. The technology that evolved from the telegraph has been used throughout history. The telegraph ideas are used in modern day times to create new ways of communication connecting the corners of the nation. The phenomenon of Benjamin Franklin's experiments helped influence the creation of the telegraph.

Morse Code has been in use for 160 years, the longest of any encoding system ever used. The telegraph, the invention that required the creation of Morse Code, was developed in the 1830’s and the 1840’s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. This revolutionized long distance communication. Morse then developed a code, Morse Code, that allowed messages to be sent using the telegraph. This was a turning point in the war was to be fought. Now individuals hundreds of miles away could make key decisions in battle such as, where to push men, if reinforcements are needed, or if retreat was necessary. The telegraph and Morse Code completely changed the way war was fought and the elements it set out are still present today.

Samuel Morse was born April 27, 1791 in Charlestown, Boston MA, was Educated at The Royal Academy of Arts from 1811-1872, Yale college from 1805-1810, and Philips Academy from 1802-1805. He was married twice; first Elizabeth Griswold for 24 years. Then, he was married Lucretia Walker for 17 years. Samuel Morse invented an electric telegraph which uses five magnetic dials that pin around a panel of letters and numbers moved by electrical currents .All an Electrical telegraph needs is a key, a battery, wire , a line of poles between stations for the wire ,and a receiver. Its intent was to send or transmit long distance messages between people. Morse code is a series of dots (short marks) and Dashes (long marks) that translate to numbers and letters,

In 1843, Morse and Vail received funding from the U.S. Congress to set up and test their telegraph system between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. On May 24, 1844, Morse sent Vail the historic first message: “What hath God wrought!” The telegraph system subsequently spread across America and the world, aided by further innovations. Among these improvements was the invention of good insulation for telegraph wires. The man behind this innovation was Ezra Cornell (1807-74), one of the founders of the university in New York that bears his name. Another improvement, by the famed inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) in 1874, was the Quadruplex system, which allowed for four messages to be transmitted simultaneously using the same wire (par 6).

Prior to the discovery of the electrical telegraph, information and ideas were transmitted via boats, horses, and trains. Soon enough scientists realized the ease of constructing an electrical telegraph, this led to two working systems one created by William Cooke from England and the other one by Samuel Morse from the United States. Morse’s rendition of the system came to be known as the Morse Code System, which was a series of dots and lines that represented letters. Despite the hard work of the scientists, the government did not think much of their inventions and denied any support for their projects. After much convincing, the Congress granted Morse $30,000 to make improvements to his model, which he did. Even after his impressive presentation, people undermined the true value of the potential of electronic telegraphing. Meanwhile, in Britain the impact of the new telegraph was brought forth as it announced the birth of Queen Victoria’s second son. Regardless of the hard efforts of Cooke and Morse (along with other contributors), the government and public still

In the 1800s information would take weeks if not months to be sent and delivered in order  to gain small to vital bits of information. In those times obtaining or sending information was tedious and slow, using methods like a letter, pigeons, or messengers. These tactics were unsafe and not secure for vital governmental information. Samuel Morse a graduate of Yale University is credited with the invention of Morse code (a code invented by him and named after him) and the invention of the

The inventor that I chose for this project is Samuel Morse, born April 27, 1791, who invented the electric telegraph in 1835 with the help and inspirations of others such as Alfred Vail.

Economic Discussion Prior to the electric telegraph, a long-distant message might be received through one of the following: fires, beacons, pigeon posts, or semaphores. At this point, the latest semaphore was recorded sending a message from Paris to Liles in under thirty two minutes. Before the telegraph, America used the Pony Express which delivered mail by horse. A message would be delivered by a series of men over a period of time before the message was received. This invaded privacy; also, depending on location, the message may take up to a week to be received.

Samuel Morse Wires Up the Nation Samuel Finley Breese Morse was a keen inventor and imaginative artist. He painted many great paintings and also invented a great invention. Even though he was not the best student in his early years, he grew up to be a keen, God loving man. His discoveries and art not only changed America, but it also changed the entire world.

Back in the 1800s there were no telephones or anything like that so they had to create something that could go long distances in the shortest possible time, so they created the telegraph which at first consisted of letters not dots and dashes. But people found out that it is easier to do dots and dashes rather than full

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an Inventor and an artist he Invented morse code and a telegraph system and painted many beautiful paintings. Speaking of art morse before becoming an inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an Inventor and an artist he Invented morse code and a telegraph system and painted many beautiful paintings. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an Inventor and an artist he Invented morse code and a telegraph system and painted many beautiful paintings.“The son of a Calvinist preacher, Massachusetts-born Samuel F. B. Morse studied philosophy and mathematics at Yale University before turning his attention to the arts, eventually travelling to England in 1811 to study painting. After his return stateside, he received commissions

Michael Morse came to me as a readmit student. He previous started at SNHU 3 years ago and it was not a good time for him to pursue his degree. He was working two jobs at the time and had just gone through a divorce. His intention was to get his mind off of what was going on in his life, and obtain a degree to not have to work two jobs forever. This plan was not successful due to not having any time for school, and not being in the right mind set at the time.

Before the invention of the telegraph in 1844 by Samuel Morse and his colleagues, news and messages traveled at a much more laborious and protracted rate. While businesses and individuals could communicate by interpersonal communication through

The telegraph was the first major advancement in communication technology. In 1838, Samuel Morse perfected and demonstrated the first telegraph machine. His machine used Morse code to send electronic currents along a wire, allowing the first high speed long distance communications. By the 1850s, the telegraph was widespread. In 1861, Western Union installed the first trans-continental line and by 1866, the first trans-Atlantic line was completed. At this time, telegraphs were all keyed by hand and transcribed from Morse code to English by ear. Fredrick Creed invented a way to convert Morse code into text in what became known as the Creed Telegraph System. That was in 1900, and by 1914, these automatic transmissions handled twice what a

The telegraph did wonders to speed up process of communication; however, it was still not ideal for everyday interaction between families and neighbors. The telegraph Morse invented was a single telegraph, sending one message at a time, so Alexander Graham Bell tried to create a multiple telegraph, sending more than one message over the same wire. At the same time, Bell and Thomas Watson, an electrician, were working on another idea in secret – the telephone. On June 2, 1875, Alexander Graham Bell discovered he could hear a sound over an electric wire, the sound of a twanging clock spring. On March 10, 1876, Bell explained in his notebook entry that his experiment was finally successful. That day he said the famous first words spoken into a telephone, “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” Finally solving the problems of the telegraph, Bell invented the telephone. The telegraph system was in place for about thirty years already, taking the telephone quite