SAMUEL MORSE

ABOUT THE INVENTOR

• Samuel Morse was born April 27, 1791 in Charlestown, Boston, MA.
• He was an inventor and a painter. In his liking of painting he
• established a reputation of being a portrait painter. And afterwards
• He invented a code (bearing his name) called morse code which consisted
• Of dots and dashes.

ABOUT HIS INVENTION

• Morse code, developed in the 1830s and 1840s,then was one of the very first ways to
• Communicate over long distances. To make this possible
• He first invented the telegraph which is why morse code was
• Invented in the first place.

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HOW ITS USED TODAY

• Because morse code is the result of the invention of the
• Telegraph morse code is still used today in the fashion of
• Communicating with a telegraph in the case of dire emergencies,
• Grid failures, or war.