Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer and the namesake of Morse code in 1837 and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
- Occupation
- inventor, physicist, sculptor, painter
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 27, 1791
- Died
- April 2, 1872
