Samuel morse

Morse Code as Spoken Language As ‘code talkers’ grew more and more comfortable with Morse Code, they eventually stopped needing to reference an alphabet chart, and could translate letters just by hearing the long and short beeps. This lead to the development of Morse Code as a spoken language rather than just a written one Fun Fact: ⚬ Morse code was designed so that the length of each symbol is inverse to its frequency of occurrence in the English language (more common=shorter and vice versa) ⚬ The most common letter in the English language is ‘E’, thus the Morse code for ‘E’ is a single dot: • ⚬ The next most common letter is the letter ‘T’, thus the Morse code for ‘T’ is a single dash: —

(1791-1872) Early Years Samuel F. B. Morse was the first child of clergyman Jedidiah Morse and Elisabeth Finley Morse. His parents were committed to his education and instilling in him the Calvinist faith. After a mediocre showing at Phillips Academy, save for a strong interest in art, his parents sent him to Yale College. Samuel’s record at Yale wasn’t much better, though he found interest in lectures on electricity and focused intensely on his art. Education After graduating from Yale in 1810, Morse wished to pursue a career as a painter, but his father desired a more substantial profession and arranged for him to apprentice at a bookstore/publisher in Boston, Massachusetts. However, Morse's continued interest in painting led his father to reverse his decision and allow Morse to study art in England. There he worked with several British masters and the respected American artist Benjamin West at the Royal Academy. Morse adopted a “romantic” painting style of large, sweeping canvases portraying heroic biographies and epic events in grand poses and brilliant colors. Career as an Artist Morse returned to America in 1815, and set up a studio in Boston. In 1818, he married Lucretia Walker, and during their brief union, they had three children. Morse soon discovered that his large paintings attracted significant attention but not many sales. Portraits, not vast depictions of history, were most popular at this time, and he was forced to become an itinerant artist, traveling from...

Samuel F. B. Morse (1791–1872) is better known today for his invention of the electromagnetic telegraph—and for "Morse" code—but he began his career as a painter and rose to the Presidency of the National Academy of Design in New York. The monumental Gallery of the Louvre is his masterwork, a canvas he created for the edification of his countrymen. The large painting will be shown in a theatrical setting as the kind of grand public display that Morse himself would have created in 1833. The beginning of Morse's pioneering efforts into new technologies—namely the electromagnetic telegraph and the medium of photography—can be found in the crafting of this one work of art, Gallery of the Louvre. This piece was Morse's ambitious effort to capture images of the Louvre's great paintings and transport them across the ocean and throughout the country, to the republic's young cities and villages, so that art and culture could grow there. Figure of Samuel F. B. Morse​​ Samuel F. B. Morse was a respected painter when he set sail from New York for Europe in 1829 to visit the princely picture galleries. As Morse took in the glories of the Louvre Museum in Paris, he recognized it as a model for the United States. The Louvre had been a royal palace but now it was a national museum displaying the royal treasures, open free to all, artists and art admirers alike. Morse had the idea to create the Louvre in miniature and transport it back to his country so that it could be viewed by students ...

Today, we collapse space and time without even thinking about it. With a touch of our fingers, we can instantly extend ourselves into the ether and around the world from the backseat of a station wagon. We have become a culture of conjurers and time lords. Ok, that might be overstating things a bit, but you get the idea. The wondrous information and communication technologies that define our age have their origins in some of the most basic of scientific principles and were first manifest in the 18th century electric telegraph. But that too had a precedent. Originally, the word “telegraph” –literally “to write at a distance”– referred to a relay communication system developed in 18th-century France by the Drawing showing a sempahore relay system. Public Domain It was the fastest way to send messengers and in the early 19th century a young but battle-weary American government offered $30,000 (roughly $440,000 today) to anyone who could build a semaphore telegraph system spanning 1,000 miles. It seemed an impossible task. The challenge was largely ignored and promptly forgotten – but never rescinded. Years later, in 1837, Samuel Morse would hear of the offer and approach Congress with an invention that must have seemed like magic or some sort of hoax. Though best known today for the coded system of dots and dashes that (perhaps unjustly) bears his name, Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) started out as a promising painter. By 1815, the young Morse was making a solid livin...

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Contents • 1 Disputed Origins • 2 Biography • 2.1 Possible Parents & Baptisms • 2.2 Immigration • 2.3 Death and Will • 2.4 Marriage • 2.5 Children • 2.6 DNA • 3 Sources Disputed Origins • 1865 Abner Morse identified Rev. Thomas Morse as the father of Samuel Morse the immigrant [NEHGR 19:264-66] • 1929 G. Andrews Moriarty researched this surname in Suffolk, and constructed a pedigree. There were three possible Samuel's but he concluded the most likely to be Rev. Thomas Morse of Boxted. [NEHGR 83:70-84, 278-94, 286-89 • 1948 Robert H. Montgomery, analyzing Moriarty's arguments concluded that Moriarty had not proved his case. [TAG 24:147-56] Within the year Moriarty defended his conclusions.[TAG 25:54-56] • 2007 Anderson's Great Migration accepts Rev. Thomas Morse as father of Samuel "as the most likely solution", but welcomes new research to strengthen or debunk the position. [p. 173, 174] • 2007 data from the • 2011: Disputes Thomas as Samuel's father, and indicates • If Thomas and Margaret (King) Morse are the correct parents, then Biography Possible Parents & Baptisms • Samuel Morse was baptized 12 Jun 1576, at Boxted, Essex, England, probably the son of Rev. Thomas Morse of Foxearth, Essex. [ OR • Samuel Morse was son Richard Morse and Margaret Sympson. Registers at Dedham: Samuel bpt 25 July 1587. [ Immigration Samuel Morse emigrated in the Increase to Watertown April 15, 1635. He was then 50 years of age and his wife Elizabeth 48. In 1636, Samuel removed to Dedham, whe...

Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, the Morse code assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland; by 1866, a telegraph line had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the United States to Europe. The telegraph had fallen out of widespread use by the 20th century, replaced by the telephone, fax machine and Internet. Early Forms of Long-Distance Communication Before the development of the electric telegraph in the 19th century revolutionized how information was transmitted across long distances, ancient civilizations such as those in However, such methods were limited by the weather and the need for an uninterrupted line of sight between receptor points. These limitations also lessened the effectiveness of the Like ancient smoke signals, the semaphore was susceptible to weather and other factors that hindered visibility. A different method of transmitting information was needed to make regular and reliable long-distance communication workable. Did you know? SOS, the internationally recognized distress signal, does not stand for any particular words. Instead,...

Parts of Samuel Morse's backstory read like a tragic Hollywood screenplay. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on April 27, 1791. A professional painter, Morse found himself working on a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette in 1825. The job had taken him to Washington, D.C. where he received a devastating letter. According to the dispatch, his young wife had died back at their home in New Haven, Connecticut. Worse, by the time Morse got this message, it was too late for him to return in time for her funeral. She was laid to rest without him. Morse's telegraph couldn't transmit voices or written characters. Yet by capitalizing on those electric pulses, he devised a new way to send coded messages. Documents show that the original Morse code was Morse's brainchild — despite rumors to the contrary. That said, he had a brilliant partner by the name of "Long" pulses came to be known as "dashes" while the short ones were called "dots." In this iteration of the code, not all dashes were created equal; some lasted Soon enough, Morse got to show off his electric cipher. In 1843, Congress handed him a $30,000 grant to build an experimental long-distance telegraph between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. The moment of truth came on May 24, 1844. Sitting in the U.S. Capitol's Supreme Court chamber, Morse sent a coded message along to Vail, who was waiting in Baltimore at the other end of the line. Morse knew "What hath God wrought." In the international code, a "dash" is...

Arguably one of the most famous inventors of all time, Thomas Edison is credited with inventing the first commercially viable incandescent lightbulb. But this was just one of his many inventions. He’s also the inventor of the Universal Stock Printer, which was used to synchronize stock tickers’ transactions, the quadruplex telegraph, and the phonograph, among others. During his lifetime, he was granted more than 1,000 U.S. patents for various inventions. 💡 If you’ve ever used a Miracle Mop, you have Joy Mangano to thank. The 67-year-old created the innovative cleaning tool in 1990, which she marketed and sold herself. A couple of years after inventing the device, she appeared on QVC to sell it, where more than 18,000 mops were sold within a half hour. In addition to the Miracle Mop, Mangano is the creator of Rolykit, Huggable Hangers, and Forever Fragrant. Along with Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs was an inventor behind Apple Computers. As the now-famous story goes, Jobs and Wozniak started Apple Computers in Jobs’ family’s garage in 1976, and the work they did there made computers more accessible and more affordable for consumers. Jobs left Apple in 1985, but he returned in 1997 and revitalized the company, leading to the creation of products like the iPod and iPhone. Along with Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak is one of the founders of Apple Computers and an inventor of the Apple I computer. Wozniak also personally invented the next model, the Apple II computer, which was a major st...

Parts of Samuel Morse's backstory read like a tragic Hollywood screenplay. He was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts on April 27, 1791. A professional painter, Morse found himself working on a portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette in 1825. The job had taken him to Washington, D.C. where he received a devastating letter. According to the dispatch, his young wife had died back at their home in New Haven, Connecticut. Worse, by the time Morse got this message, it was too late for him to return in time for her funeral. She was laid to rest without him. Morse's telegraph couldn't transmit voices or written characters. Yet by capitalizing on those electric pulses, he devised a new way to send coded messages. Documents show that the original Morse code was Morse's brainchild — despite rumors to the contrary. That said, he had a brilliant partner by the name of "Long" pulses came to be known as "dashes" while the short ones were called "dots." In this iteration of the code, not all dashes were created equal; some lasted Soon enough, Morse got to show off his electric cipher. In 1843, Congress handed him a $30,000 grant to build an experimental long-distance telegraph between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. The moment of truth came on May 24, 1844. Sitting in the U.S. Capitol's Supreme Court chamber, Morse sent a coded message along to Vail, who was waiting in Baltimore at the other end of the line. Morse knew "What hath God wrought." In the international code, a "dash" is...