BIOGRAPHY:
Samuel Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charlestown Massachusetts, first born of Pastor Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese. Growing up he was a very intelligent kid, he entered Academy in Andover high school when he was 9 and attended Yale college when he was 14 in 1805. After Samuel finished college he set sail for England to the Royal Academy of Arts where he would acquire more skill from influential english artists, inevitably influencing him to open an art studio in Boston and start his professional career as a painter. During the next several years, he married Susan Walker, and while painting one of his art pieces he would receive a message that his wife was ill and would have a few days to live, he desperately rushed from Washington to his home in New Haven, only to find that his wife Susan Walker Morse (age 25) had died a few days earlier. Devastated by this news and the inability of the current message system, he started devising a plan to create a new way of fast long distance communication. After learning that information sent via copper cables travels instantaneously over great distances, Morse started devising the creation of a single-wire telegraph and later submitted his findings to the US patent office.
The Morse Code was also created by Samuel Morse in order to use long and short signals to convey the alphabet as codes, transmitted as electrical pulses along telegraph wires. "What hath God wrought?"- Samuel Morse. First telegraphic message, 1844.
"Morse to Prof. Jackson: N. Y., Dec. 7, 1837. This machinery consisted, as you well know, of a system of signs, which were numerals to be read by intervals, type and apparatus to arrange the numbers for transmission, a lever to mark on the register, and a register moving by clock machinery to receive the marks at the proper times."- Early history of the electro-magnetic telegraph from letters and journals of Alfred Vail by Vail, Alfred 1914.