General Information
•Full Name: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
•American Painter and Inventor
•Birth: April 27, 1791 – Boston, MA
*Death: April 2, 1872 – New York, NY
•Spouse: Elizabeth Griswold (1848-1872), and Lucretia Walker (1818-1825)
•Education: Royal Academy of the Arts, Yale College, Phillips Academy - Andover
•Began working on the telegraph – 1832.
•Patterned a telegraph mechanism on June 20, 1840.
•Used experimentation based upon trial and error.
Here is a photograph of Samuel Morse around the same time when he obtained Patent 1647 - Electro Telegraph, which used a specialized code system for communication.