Biography

= ﻿ Biography =

== ﻿Samuel Finely Breese Morse was born on April 27, 1791 in Charlestown, Massachusetts. As the oldest child Morse painted lots of mimi portraits to earn money for his family. When he grew up he graduate from Yale in 1810 and then lived in England from 1811 to 1815. Then for the next ten years he spent his time as an itinerant artist. In 1832 he returned to America being appointed Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the University of the City of New York City. Then he started to get an interest on electromagnets. This was when the telegraph started to grow. In 1837 Morse started to work on the telegraph with the assistance of Alfred Vail, Proffesor leonard Gail and congress F.O.J. Smith. Soon finally the telegraph got finished and the first message was sent in May 24 1844. Everybody soon started hearing about it. The telegraph was used in the military and wars in 1854. Then things started to come to an end for Samuel Morse. He died on April 2, 1872. ==

== Another invention that Samuel Morse made was the Morse Code. He invented it in 1835, before the telegraph was invented. The Morse Code was also another way of communication. Only you will be using dots and lines to speak. ==

== Samuel Morses' invention helps us today by improving our phones and technology now. If it wasn't for Samuel Morse who invented the telegraph we wouldn't have this great a technology now. We can improve distance calls, we can improve the looks of our phones, and pratically improve anything with our phones right now. ==