samuel morse

     

He painted the White House portrait of President Monroe before much wider fame as an inventor in the 1840s

Trivia about samuel morse

  • In 1871 U.S. telegraphers honored him with a bronze statue in NYC's Central Park
  • He sketched out a model of his telegraph during an ocean voyage in 1832
  • "The Father of the Telegraph"
  • He set up his telegraph code by checking the frequency of each letter in the type of a printer's box
  • He not only developed the first practical telegraph, he also devised the "code" to go with it
  • A cousin of this telegraph & code inventor set up the famous Pebble Beach golf course
  • During a return voyage to the U.S. in 1832, he came up with the idea of sending messages over wires
  • He was one of the finest American portrait artists, but he's best remembered for his "code"
  • This telegraph pioneer introduced Mathew Brady to photography in the 1840s
  • In 1836 this artist unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York City: a year later he invented the telegraph
  • In 1832 this telegraph inventor became professor of painting & sculpture at NYU
  • Mathew Brady learned about daugerreotypes from this cocded inventor
  • Sidney Morse invented the bathometer, to explore the sea; this brother was a better-known inventor
  • This telegraph pioneer was also an artist who served as the first president of the Nat'l Academy of Design
  • When he offered to sell the rights to his telegraph, the government turned him down
  • Arrived on the dot April 27, 1791, Yale grad, painted, coded, dashed off April 2, 1872
  • In 1857 this telegraph inventor served as the electrician on Cyrus Field's first transatlantic cable attempt
  • The 1820s portrait of Eli Whitney, seen here, was painted by this fellow inventor
  • This 19th century inventor's notable portraits included those of the Marquis de Lafayette & William Cullen Bryant

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