Samuel Morse Research Paper

In Charlestown, Massachusetts a young boy was born on April 27th, 1791. His parents were Calvinist Pastor Jedidiah Morse (1761-1826) and Elizabeth Ann Breese (1776-1828). This young lad would soon be known to the world as Samuel Morse. He would later be known as a painter and for creating the electric telegraph, along with a unified language that would reach all four corners of the world. Morse was a smart lad and was enrolled in Yale College at the age of fourteen in 1805. In his college years, he sparked interest in art, and painted many portraits for money. Once, he finished college in 1810, he wished to continue his career as a painter, though his father insisted him to become a bookseller’s apprentice. Samuel later went to London
It was supposedly said the young girl had a slight crush on the widowed old inventor. On May 23rd, 1844, Morse, situated in the U.S capitol, where he tapped out Annie’s words, “What hath God wrought?” from a passage in Deuteronomy. Seconds later, Alfred Vail, Morse’s long time assistant, received the message in Baltimore, Maryland, railroad depot less than fifty miles away, which would usher the world in a new way of communication. As his creation started spreading across the eastern coast of America, Samuel struggled to obtain the rights for the telegraph .Though after the long legal battle he secured the rights to being called, “Inventor of the Telegraph”, in spite of his shared contributions with Alfred Vail, who helped in the creation of Morse code. Finally, by 1847 Samuel Morse received the patent for the telegraph and by 1851 Morse’s telegraph was adopted as a standard in all European countries except in UK (and their numerous overseas colonies). Instead they used Cook’s and Wheatstone’s version instead. Samuel spent later years of his life fighting the patent courts for the rights of the official recognition of the telegraph. He received substantial amounts of honors, recognitions, and