The son of an American priest, first proposed an artistic career from 1832 and taught drawing at the Art University of New York. In addition, raised Samuel Morse to renovate the electric telegraph to his leisure activity, the invention of which he later named with him, Morse code and a suitable electronic transmission technology operating in a earnest way forward …
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on 27 April 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, was born. His father was a priest.
With visiting the Morse graduated from Yale College in 1810 trained as a bookseller. He adept this profession with not, but, Very, he proposed an artistic career for a painter. He studied painting in England. Morse went to New York in 1825 and belonged in the same year the founders of the Academy of Design in New York, whose president he was raised 1826th He strived for political office, but failed with his candidacy for the New York mayoralty.
In 1832 he received an appointment as professor of drawing at the Art University in New York. In the years 1832 to 1837 Morse developed his artistic inclinations besides a strong interest in scientific processes. In particular, he sat apart in experiments with chemical and electrical issues. His particular interest was the development of an electronic telegraphy. 1837 Morse constructed with the help of Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail first, later named with him, apparatus for electronic transmission of messages over fantastic distances.
In 1842 he bought the patent for the device. Morse later designed a new code for message transmission, in which each epistle is composed of a different combination of dots and dashes: the now so-called “Morse Code”. When the electrical telecommunications ever with sending letters to the appropriate combination of long and small current pulses sent to the recipient. At that time, but, the electric telegraph was still in its infancy, because everywhere was still developed by Claude Chappe optical telegraph in use.
Morse was also the first invention of its time far ahead. It was not until 1843, he was able to prevail in the U.S. Congress approval for the construction of the first electric telegraph line between Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, DC. In May 1844, Morse took over this distance of 60 Km long, the first electronic message into Morse code. The new communications technology soon became persuaded, especially the private sector. On private initiative quickly developed new telegraph shape, which apply quicker than the former railway over the entire United States. In 1851 the Western Union was founded, the American forward operating until the wiring right.
In 1866 it came to establishing the first functioning transatlantic telegraph communication.
Samuel Morse died on 2 April 1872 in New York of pneumonia.
