You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Samuel F.B. Morse patented an electric telegraph machine on June 20th 1840.

Today is the birthday of Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code. Today, Google is sending out a message to everyone that it is his birthday. The logo is getting a lot of buzz and people are asking ...

With over 160 years of history under its belt, Morse code is by far the oldest digital signaling system known to man. Originally developed for telegraph systems, [Samuel Morse’s] code has been sent ...

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...

A painting by the inventor of Morse Code titled “Gallery of the Louvre” will go on display later this month. Described as a masterwork, the painting, a six-foot-by-nine-foot piece created over two ...

Most inventors have an interest in either science or engineering. However, for the first four decades of his life, Samuel Morse's great passion was painting. After getting his parents' permission to ...

In 1853, the Supreme Court gave Samuel Morse some bad news. In O'Reilly v. Morse, the justices approved the inventor's patent for part of the telegraph that delivered the Morse code message "What Hath ...