May 24
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first long-distance transmission on the electric telegraph from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. to his partner in Baltimore, MD.
Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought.”
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On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first long-distance transmission on the electric telegraph from the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. to his partner in Baltimore, MD.
Morse sent the message "What hath God wrought.”
Samuel Morse, 1791-1872. Susan Walker Morse (The Muse), 1835-1837. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Сэмюэл Финли Бриз Морзе (Samuel Finley Breese Morse; 1791-1872) — американский изобретатель и художник. Наиболее известные изобретения — электромагнитный пишущий телеграф («аппарат Морзе», 1836) и код (азбука) Морзе. 24 мая 1844 года была послана первая депеша между Вашингтоном и Балтимором по способу Морзе с текстом «Чудны дела Твои, Господи». Сэмюэл Морзе был одним из основателей и первым президентом (1826-1845) Национальной академии дизайна в Нью-Йорке.
Second day of issue stamps. Eli Whitney and Samuel Morse - 1940.
Gallery of the Louvre (1831-33). Samuel Finley Breese Morse.
Samuel F. B. Morse, Study for The House of Representatives, c. 1821, oil on panel.
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Samuel Finley Breese Morse (American, 1791-1872)
Little Miss Hone, 1824
Oil on canvas mounted on plywood
On display at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Best known for inventing the telegraph and the Morse code, Samuel Morse began his career as a painter. He made this portrait of five-year-old Mary Hone for her father, Isaac, a New York auctioneer. Echoing sentimental English pictures of children, Morse shows her rehearsing her future role as a mother. He wrote: ‘I shall paint her with a cat set up in her lap like a baby, with a towel under its chin, and a cap on its head, and she employed in feeding it with a spoon.’”
Tomb of Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse Code.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn
2016
If you've heard of Morse Code, you've also heard the name of the inventor of the telegraph machine, Samuel Morse. Chances are better, though, that you have not heard of Princeton professor Joseph Henry, whose scientific discovery of electromagnetism made the invention possible.
On August 19, 1858, as Princetonians celebrated the successful completion of the laying of the "Atlantic Cable" that allowed for real-time transatlantic communication via telegram for the first time, professor Stephen Alexander complained about his colleague not getting the credit he was due as the world lauded Morse. The Nassau Literary Magazine summarized Alexander's comments:
"We are not disposed to detract from the established reputation of Prof. Morse, as an ingenious inventor, but only to remind him of his forgetfulness in not attributing to the man at whose feet he was once proud to sit as a learner, the merit of having first demonstrated the telegraph to be eminently practicable."
Portrait of Joseph Henry found in the Historical Photograph Collection: Individuals Series (AC067), Box 135, Folder 30.