Inventor Of Morse Code

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 106, 7 May 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)

Inventor Of Morse Code

THE packet ship Sully, bound from England to New York ( in the year 1832, was in mid-, J Atlantic. The passengers were j sitting about the decks idly chat-j ting, the central figure of one group being Samuel Morse, a famous American artist, who was returning to his native land after studying the old masters. Morse, Who wa; the founder and llr»t president of the Xmii-na; Aiviiloir- "f , Design, was a man wh< -c npini us u ore listened to with Jf.'f-fiice. He wa< a' scientist as w.-li as an artist, -o \va« ; quite at home when tlip talk turned to ilip pr.-jiertk-s of electro-magnetism. "If tlip presence of electricity can be i:i.idi? visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted by electricity." he j said. So convinced was Morse of the I soundnr.=s of hi? theory that before the l Sully docked at New York, he had com-1

plcted rough dr-jfl- of i' r .■--.<ry apparatus. » hirh h» -:j ■• ■• .. • -us J friend.- n n bnanl. i Thin crmip tn-irhiiie n.i- : play an jimpirtani pan r: M:-'- ■.<rf»r. for j its i<Jo!;t i'ic , : : .'■ '. -"» •• yi ..- later by the f-ji:•'.-<in "i x'.tr >■-.]]}• >!.,--/> ;■- i'<p iinciiii>r of th? electric !'•!••;:»;■!;. For 12 year- after hi? return :.i Ani-rii-a on the Sully. Morse was • in a painful struggle to perfect hi« iir..■ iii i<. n and secure for it a proper ;rf-.-niati.,n to the public. In poverty, foresaking art. he pursued bis new enterprise, making hi« own models, moulds and eastiua*. d<-i:\ ; iu himself the common .i ;. „. It was not until 183G that ;;«■ ■■■ :|. ■ . any apparatus that woui.l «■■ 1544 he constructed a ::■] j ■ ■ w :i transmitted r.p;»..f-, ; 1 , .., :•- more and Washington. Morse, who imti ,- ■- !■. j.ci Mif.; in ! the €•• ><le [if ,■;•,.'- • -. ; f..r -';--■ iclegraph. :\a- ':■ :, . n A; ::i _'7 1793. He died ■; i-TJ. a i ii - -".)•■ • in bronze ■ tan. J .- t> „ y ;u Lei:traJ Tart, X«f i York.