Dot and dash code inventor began as artist
Samuel Morse, who invented the Morse code of dots and dashes, started his career as an artist. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in 1791. He studied at the Royal Academy, London, and later became well known as a portrait painter in the United States. On a return trip to the United States in 1832, after visiting art galleries in Europe, Morse travelled in a ship called the Sully. A passenger gave a demonstration of an
“electro magnet,” a novelty. It was from this that Morse got his idea of the electric telegraph and later the code to be used with the telegraph. The first message was sent in Baltimore in May, 1844. Received by Morse in Washington it read, “What hath God wrought.” Before Morse’s death in 1872 he saw telegraph lines established all over the world. A statue of him was put up in New York’s Central Park a year before he died.
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