Samuel Morse was an American painter turned inventor who developed a single-wire electrical telegraph system and, with Alfred Vail, the Morse code used to send text over it. He sent the first public long-distance message, "What hath God wrought," from Washington to Baltimore on May 24, 1844, and his system became the standard for telegraphy in the United States.
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Developed the electric telegraph and Morse code.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Source Morse code (Wikipedia)
Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954View the Source Technology: A World History
Samuel Morse (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia contributors, Wikimedia FoundationIn Group: Telecommunications and Radio Engineers, lead paragraph: telecom/radio/television invention or advance stated in own articleView the Source Morse code (Wikipedia)
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It is named after Samuel Morse, one of several developers of the system.
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