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Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Inventor, born at Charlestown, Massachusetts, graduated at Yale in 1810 and adopted art as a profession; he gained some distinction as a sculptor, and in 1835 was appointed professor of Design in New York; electrical studies were his hobby; between 1832 and 1837 he worked out the idea of an electric telegraph—simultaneously conceived by Wheatstone in England—and in 1843Congress granted funds for an experimental line between Washington and Baltimore; honour and fortune crowded on him, his invention was adopted all over the world, and he received an international grant of £16,000; he died in New York (1791-1872).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Morse, Samuel Finley Breese'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/morse-samuel-finley-breese.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Morse, Samuel Finley Breese'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/m/morse-samuel-finley-breese.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
