Samuel Finley Breese Morse ( April 27 of 1791 , Charlestown, Massachusetts - died April 2 of 1872 , New York ) inventor of the telegraph . He began his studies at Phillips Academy of Adove , from where he to Yale College .
In his student years he discovered in him a certain vocation for painting and decided to pursue it, but also attracted by the recent discoveries and experiments for electricity. For a while, worked in Boston for a publisher and then traveled to England to study painting in the city of London , and became a successful portrait painter and sculptor, his most famous painting is the portrait of La Fayette painted in 1825, became a painter of scenes históricas.Cuando returned home he noticed that the paintings of historical scenes did not like his countrymen, so it took a turn towards the specialization of the portrait. For 1825 in New York , was one of the country's leading portrait painters and was one of the most distinguished intellectual groups. In 1826 he was a founder and first president of the National Academy of Design.
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At 27 she met Lucretia Walker, a beautiful and educated girl he fell in love. The couple married seven years later she died, leaving devastated the artist, who also had to seek a livelihood to support their three children. Despite being a genius, failed to make money as a painter and during those years malvivía with their meager income. At times, came to spend days without eating, I expected to pay for a picture or painting lesson.
His latent interest in the affairs of electricity is finalized during the return from a trip to Europe. While attending Yale learned that if you interrupt a circuit saw a flash and he thought that such disruptions could reach to be used as a means of communication. This possibility obsessed him.
Upon reaching the ground from that trip in 1832 had already designed a fledgling telegraph and began to develop the idea of \u200b\u200ba telegraph wire system with a built electromagnet. On January 6, 1833, Morse made his first public demonstration of their telegraph. At the age of forty-one, went into the task of building a practical telegraph and arouse public interest and government in the device and then restart. In 1835 appeared the first model developed Morse telegraph . Two years later he left painting to devote himself completely to his experiments, same as strongly overshadow his merits as a painter.
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Portrait Samuel FB Morse by Mathew Brady , between 1855-1865
In 1838 had already perfected his code signals, based on dots and dashes came to be known and used worldwide as " Morse Code ." Tried to implement the first telephone lines in U.S. and then Europe but both attempts failed. Finally, Morse got to the U.S. Congress be presented a bill to provide $ 30,000 designated to build a telegraph line 60 km in length. Several months later the project was approved, and the line would stretch along 37 miles between Baltimore and Boston .
May 24 1844 , Morse transmitted the message that would become so famous: "What God has wrought" What hath God wrought "(a quote biblical , Numbers 23:23) from Supreme Court U.S. . States. In Washington, DC his assistant, Alfred Vail in Baltimore, Maryland . Despite this remarkable work, Morse had to face opposition from superstitious blamed his invention of all evil. Furthermore, the invention was being developed simultaneously in other countries and by other scientists, so Morse was involved in lengthy litigation to obtain the rights to your system, same that were recognized in 1854 by the U.S. Supreme Court together.
With his invention, Morse earned a fortune with which he bought a large estate, and in his later years he devoted himself to making philanthropy, bringing considerable sums schools like Vassar College and Yale University along with other missionary and charitable associations.
In his student years he discovered in him a certain vocation for painting and decided to pursue it, but also attracted by the recent discoveries and experiments for electricity. For a while, worked in Boston for a publisher and then traveled to England to study painting in the city of London , and became a successful portrait painter and sculptor, his most famous painting is the portrait of La Fayette painted in 1825, became a painter of scenes históricas.Cuando returned home he noticed that the paintings of historical scenes did not like his countrymen, so it took a turn towards the specialization of the portrait. For 1825 in New York , was one of the country's leading portrait painters and was one of the most distinguished intellectual groups. In 1826 he was a founder and first president of the National Academy of Design.
Everyday Life [ edit ]
At 27 she met Lucretia Walker, a beautiful and educated girl he fell in love. The couple married seven years later she died, leaving devastated the artist, who also had to seek a livelihood to support their three children. Despite being a genius, failed to make money as a painter and during those years malvivía with their meager income. At times, came to spend days without eating, I expected to pay for a picture or painting lesson.
His latent interest in the affairs of electricity is finalized during the return from a trip to Europe. While attending Yale learned that if you interrupt a circuit saw a flash and he thought that such disruptions could reach to be used as a means of communication. This possibility obsessed him.
Upon reaching the ground from that trip in 1832 had already designed a fledgling telegraph and began to develop the idea of \u200b\u200ba telegraph wire system with a built electromagnet. On January 6, 1833, Morse made his first public demonstration of their telegraph. At the age of forty-one, went into the task of building a practical telegraph and arouse public interest and government in the device and then restart. In 1835 appeared the first model developed Morse telegraph . Two years later he left painting to devote himself completely to his experiments, same as strongly overshadow his merits as a painter.
recent years [ edit ]
Portrait Samuel FB Morse by Mathew Brady , between 1855-1865
In 1838 had already perfected his code signals, based on dots and dashes came to be known and used worldwide as " Morse Code ." Tried to implement the first telephone lines in U.S. and then Europe but both attempts failed. Finally, Morse got to the U.S. Congress be presented a bill to provide $ 30,000 designated to build a telegraph line 60 km in length. Several months later the project was approved, and the line would stretch along 37 miles between Baltimore and Boston .
May 24 1844 , Morse transmitted the message that would become so famous: "What God has wrought" What hath God wrought "(a quote biblical , Numbers 23:23) from Supreme Court U.S. . States. In Washington, DC his assistant, Alfred Vail in Baltimore, Maryland . Despite this remarkable work, Morse had to face opposition from superstitious blamed his invention of all evil. Furthermore, the invention was being developed simultaneously in other countries and by other scientists, so Morse was involved in lengthy litigation to obtain the rights to your system, same that were recognized in 1854 by the U.S. Supreme Court together.
With his invention, Morse earned a fortune with which he bought a large estate, and in his later years he devoted himself to making philanthropy, bringing considerable sums schools like Vassar College and Yale University along with other missionary and charitable associations.
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