Samuel Morse
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Content
Background
 Family & Roots
 Education
 Inventions
 Morse Code
 Contributions
 References
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Background
Born in April 27th, 1791 (Charlestown,
Massachusetts)
 Died in April 2nd, 1872 (New York)
 Invented the Telegraph
 Invented Morse Code
 An accomplished painter
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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
Philips Academy
 Yale University
Majoring in Mathematics, Religious
Philosophy and Science
 Graduated from Yale in 1810 with Phi
Beta Kappa Honors
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Inventions
Invented the Telegram
 1832 met Charles Thomas Jackson and
developed a concept of a telegraph with a
single wire
 First telegraph line was opened on May
24th 1844
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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
Paved the way of communication in the
early-mid 1800’s
 Morse code was used as an international
standard for maritime communications till
1999
 Simple, versatile and highly efficient way
of communication
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References
http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventi
ons/a/telegraph.htm
 http://www.notablebiographies.com/MoNi/Morse-Samuel-F-B.html
 http://samuelmorsebiography.com/
 http://www.omniglot.com/writing/morsecod
e.htm
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