United States Inventions

Samuel Finley Breese Morse

• Born April 27, 1791 in Charlestown, Mass.
• Died April 2, 1872 in New York, New York
• Painter and inventor
• Parents sent him to Yale University
• He graduated from Yale in 1810

MORSE CONT...

• After graduating he became a clerk for a Boston book publisher
• Know for inventing the telegraph and morse code
• In 1811 he traveled to England to study art
• In 1827 he helped launch the New York Journal of Commerce
• He was said to have a gift in leadership

HE WAS NOT JUST AN INVENTOR

• He was much more
• His main passion was painting
• He taught art at the University of the City of New York

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF DESIGN

• Morse was the founder
• Organized to increase respect for painters in the U.S.
• Was its first president from 1826 to 1845
• In 1832 he returned from Europe
• While on he return he concieved the idea for the telegraph

TELOGRAPH

• Idea stemed from overhearing about the electromagnet
• He made the first working model by 1835
• In 1844 his first telegraph line was complete
• The line reached from Baltimore to Washington
• First message sent, "what hath God wrought!"

MORSE CODE

• Developed system consisting of dots and dashes
• Used as a communiaction "language" for the telegraph
• Invented in 1838
• Was invented with the help of Alfred Vail
• Was also used for numbers not just letteres

JAMES CURTIS PHILLIPS

• Born on March 13, 1967 in Fort Benning, Georgia
• Attended the University of West Georgia
• Graduated in 1990
• Began working at Georgia Pacific 1996
• This is where he began his inventing carrer

PHILLIPS CONT...

• Graduated with BS degree in biology
• With a minor in chemistry
• Followed in his fathers foot steps as an inventor
• James C. Phillips his father invented the defueling hose
• This defueling hose was invented for military helicopters

GEORGIA PACIFIC

• He was RND Development Chemist
• His job was to manage and maintain current industrial resin product line
• Which ment he tested an improved other peoples products
• Although while working there he invented a couple things of his own
• Main invention: Extended-release urea-based granular fertilizer

EXTENDED-RELEASE UREA-BASED GRANULAR FERTILIZER

• Synthetic nitrogen based fertilizer
• It utilizes polymeric bonds and microbes in the soil
• To regulate nitrogen uptake by plants
• Extends the availibilty if nitrogen in the soil
• Which extends the food supply throughout a plants life cycle

HIGH NITROGEN LIQUID FERTILIZER

• Solid of the liquid extended-release urea-based granular fertilizer
• The extended-release urea-based granular fertilizer
• Was invented in 2006 and patented in 2011
• The solid version was invented and patented in 2009
• These were invented and tested at the Georgia-Pacific Chemical LLC

AIDED IN INVENTING OF ...

• Slow release of nitrogen coating
• Melamine urea- formaldehyde resins
• For increased moisture resistance in composite wood panels
• Resign from Georgia in 2008
• Now works for Chickfila for their corperate office in Atlanta Georgia

INVENTORS

• Not all inventors invent things as their passion
• Morse loved to paint more
• Phillips now works for a corporative business