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<p> Inventor, born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, graduated at Yale in 1810 and adopted art as a profession; he gained some distinction as a sculptor, and in 1835 was appointed professor of Design in New York; electrical studies were his hobby; between 1832 and 1837 he worked out the idea of an electric telegraph—simultaneously conceived by Wheatstone in England—and in 1843Congress granted funds for an experimental line between [[Washington]] and Baltimore; honour and fortune crowded on him, his invention was adopted all over the world, and he received an international grant of £16,000; he died in New York (1791-1872). </p> | Samuel Finley Breese Morse <ref name="term_77002" /> | ||
==References == | <p> Inventor, born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, graduated at Yale in 1810 and adopted art as a profession; he gained some distinction as a sculptor, and in 1835 was appointed professor of [[Design]] in New York; electrical studies were his hobby; between 1832 and 1837 he worked out the idea of an electric telegraph—simultaneously conceived by Wheatstone in England—and in 1843Congress granted funds for an experimental line between [[Washington]] and Baltimore; honour and fortune crowded on him, his invention was adopted all over the world, and he received an international grant of £16,000; he died in New York (1791-1872). </p> | ||
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<ref name="term_77002"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/morse,+samuel+finley+breese Samuel Finley Breese Morse from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | <ref name="term_77002"> [https://bibleportal.com/encyclopedia/the-nuttall-encyclopedia/morse,+samuel+finley+breese Samuel Finley Breese Morse from The Nuttall Encyclopedia]</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:45, 15 October 2021
Samuel Finley Breese Morse [1]
Inventor, born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, graduated at Yale in 1810 and adopted art as a profession; he gained some distinction as a sculptor, and in 1835 was appointed professor of Design in New York; electrical studies were his hobby; between 1832 and 1837 he worked out the idea of an electric telegraph—simultaneously conceived by Wheatstone in England—and in 1843Congress granted funds for an experimental line between Washington and Baltimore; honour and fortune crowded on him, his invention was adopted all over the world, and he received an international grant of £16,000; he died in New York (1791-1872).
