In 1849 Samuel F. B. Morse received U.S. patent #6,420 for an “improvement in electric telegraphs.” This patent model demonstrated a refinement Morse made to his original telegraph register. Rather ...

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Description Alfred Vail made this key, believed to be from the first Baltimore-Washington telegraph line, as an improvement on Samuel Morse's original transmitter. Vail ...

The Milwaukee-Madison chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club celebrated the 227birthday of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, on April 27, at Spring Brook Golf Club in ...

DETROIT — An artistic masterpiece that Samuel F.B. Morse painted in the years before he developed the telegraph is being displayed at the Detroit Institute of Arts as part of a traveling exhibition.

The book is a biography of nineteenth-century inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, who is best known for inventing the telegraph. Mr. Silverman talked about Morse's life, family, and accomplishments.

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...

Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1872 Category Historic Images of the Smithsonian Summary Samuel Morse's Experimental Telegraph from 1837. With this instrument Morse first demonstrated the receiving ...

"This technological advance, pioneered by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse, heralded the end of the Pony Express," wrote the Library of Congress. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 3, 1863, LINCOLN ISSUES ...

The sequence of dots and dashes represent letters and numbers. This key is an example of the earliest type of key used by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail. Location Currently not on view Credit Line from ...