Samuel Morse’s telegraph system spread across America while he struggled to get the rights to a patent for the machine. It was actually after a long legal battle that he secured the ability to ...

In 1836, Samuel Morse, Joseph Henry, and Alfred Vail invented the electrical telegraph system. It was the first system that allowed communication over great distances.

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 ...

Texting in the broadest sense—that is, electrically sending words back and forth between people—had arguably been around for nearly 150 years, since Samuel F.B. Morse unveiled his telegraph.

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 ...

The wonder of science.On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. This is another master stroke for the scientific community of the ...

Morse, 56 U.S. (15 How.) 62 (1853) (sometimes referred to as The Telegraph Case), the Court reviewed two related patents, the first issued in 1840 claiming any method of transmitting information ...