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Samuel F.B. Morse
Miles Kropf
9-19-01
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Science
In the time of plantations, railroads, and unions there was a leap of knowledge in long-distance communication. No longer did human-kind beat drums, light fires, and ring bells to comunicate. Now they just had to just put in a code into a telegraph and let all the people know what’s going on.
My inventor is Samuel Finley Breese Morse.
He invented the telegraph reciever, lighning wires, and morse code.
Overall, I think he was a determined man.
Friend of Noah Webster and son of a priest, Morse lived lavishly. He was an average student in Yale University and loved the lectures of the newly found electricity. But, to his parents discomfort he focused his studies onto art and became a renowned for his work, yet when he went to Europe he found no patrons for his work. He then tried his luck in politics. A natrual leader, Morse ran for New York Congressman under the Navist ticket. On his first run he recieved 1,550 votes, but on the second attempt he recieved less than 100 votes. So defeated and tires Morse settleed down and founded the National Academy of Design where he taught art.
Morse wasn’t a very nice guy till he was an old man ready to die. He was anti-Catholic and made public speeches against them. It is believes he feared Catholics all of his life.He discriminated immigrants, especially the Irish, and wrote anti-immigrant pamphlets against them. Morse was for slavery and rebuked all who wanted to abolish it.
Morse’s main invention was Morse code.
Off a boat from Europe he overheard a conversation about the newly made electrmanet and cameup with the idea of a telegraph. Thinking this was new he made a telegraph. As he noticed someone already built one and he quickly concieved the idea of a reciever and a way to communicate with it.
Other inventions he made were lightning wires and a telegraph reciever. The wires made the telegraph signal stronger.
He showed his invention to the world on pltforms in the streets where he would send a message to congress, 81 miles away.
The people thought the invention was great, soon telegraph poles were popping up everywhere.
This invention allowed people to communicate within greater distances with more detail.
What I admired about my inventor, Morse, is with each defeat he snatched another victory.
I didn’t know Morse was against Catholics, immigrants, amd people who wanted to abolish slavery till he was almost dead. I guess he finally got a message of is own.
So this ends the telling of a message of the past...
brief text and audio biography from the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
GREAT SITE!!!!-a biography of Morse from Locust Grove, his Poughkeepsie, N.
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