7th Samual Morse

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse is born in Charlestown on April 27 1791 he was a Painter and inventor , He is best remembered today for his invention of single-wire telegraph system and the co-inventor of the morse code. He was the son of PastorJedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese he was the 1st child they had. During his youth his father inserted into him belief of his Calvinist faith and of preservation of Puritan traditions. Morse Entered phillps Academy in Andover, Massachusetts at the age of nine, by the age of 14 he was attending yale in 1804. When he was in Collage he earned money by painting portraits and studied the subjects of religious philosophy, mathematics and science of horse. He also Attented Lectures by Benjamin Silliman and Jeremiah Day On electricity But is Focuse on life was art. After Returing to Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1810 he wished to Continue his Career in art, But his Father wanted him to become a booksellers apprentice and later on become a Publisher. His partents let him travel to england for more education of art. After Returing to the US in 1815 he opend an art Studio in boston. During the several next years he married Susan Walker Morse which gave him three children. Samuel received the message of his wife's sudden illness. Samuel rushed to from the Washington to his home in New Haven, only to find that his wife Susan Walker Morse (aged 25) has died few days later while he was on his journey. After the Devistation he started devising a plan to create new way of fast long distance communication so messages could get to people faster. First moment when Samuel Morse came to idea to use electromagnetism as a means of communication was in 1832. Samuel Morse struggled with his designs of the telegraph. Inability of sending information to great distance came to end when he received help from the New York University's Professor Leonard Gale. With his help Morse was able to send information over the distance of 10 miles. Encouraged by this discovery Morse started planning first public demonstration of his system. With the financial help of the machinist and inventor Alfred Vail he organized public showing on January 11, 1838 at the grounds of the Speedwell Ironworks factory. Without an additional power source his telegraph had the ability to send messages over two miles, and first message that was transmitted in the presence of the local crows was "A patient waiter is no loser".Morse code method of transmitting textual information as a series of on and off tones. His discovery soon changed the way the messages are sent and received in entire world,