Samuel Morse

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Samuel Morse (1791–1872) was an American painter turned inventor whose name became synonymous with long-distance electronic communication. After gaining recognition as a portrait artist, he redirected his life’s work following the death of his wife, dedicating himself to solving the problem of instantaneous messaging across great distances.

Morse co-invented the electric telegraph and devised Morse code, a brilliantly optimized system of dots and dashes based on character frequency and efficiency that became the global standard for communication for more than a century.

Although the idea of sending signals by electricity had been suggested earlier — most notably in Scot’s Magazine on February 17, 1753, in an article by the anonymous author “C.M.,” who proposed a much slower, alphabet-per-wire signaling method — Morse’s code was vastly superior in speed, simplicity, error-resilience, and practicality, enabling real-time transmission over a single wire.

His first telegram in 1844, “What hath God wrought,” inaugurated the dawn of the information age and transformed world communication forever.

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Samuel Morse, American painter and inventor who co-developed Morse code, was born on April 27, 1791 as Samuel F.B. Morse, in Boston, Massachusetts and died on April 2, 1872 in New York City, New York.

Born 4 days apart

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Samuel Morse
was conceived around July 21, 1790
and has 1 event

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270 days before
(about 9 months)

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