Samuel F. B. Morse

thumb|upright=1.1|Self-portrait of Morse in 1812 (National Portrait Gallery) thumb| Plaque on the Old Post Office Bldg, 7th St. between F and G NW, Washington D.C. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor, and painter of portraits and historic scenes. Quotes What hath God wrought? Quoted in John F. Stover, History of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (1987, Purdue University Press), 0-911198-81-4, pp. 59–60 Message sent by Morse to officially open the first telegraph line, from Baltimore to Washington, on May 24, 1844 The birth and inauguration of the generic telegraph has not only opened a new field for the labors, and given direction to the ingenuity of the mechanician, suggesting numerous varieties of form and distribution of parts, but it has also give a fresh impulse to the researches of the philosopher into the mysteries of the most efficient agent, electricity. It has been the servant of the astronomer; it has assisted in the determination of longitudes; ... it has promoted the science of meteorology, and been tributary in many ways to the advancement of our knowledge of terrestrial phenomena. ... https://books.google.com/books?id=rGgPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA8 8 Examination of the Telegraphic Apparatus and the Processes in Telegraphy 1869 External links Category:Academics from the United States Category:Inventors Category:Electrical engineers Category:Painters from the United States Category:Unitarians from the United States Category:Critics of religion Category:1791 births Category:1872 deaths Category:People from Boston Category:Yale University alumni