Samuel morse Biography

Biography of SAMUEL F. B. MORSE

SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE MORSE was inventor of the magnetic telegraph. He was the eldest son of the Rev.Jedediah Morse who was geographer. He was born April 27th,1791 in Charlestown at Massachusetts.

He started their education from Phillips Academy. He was not much good in study but his drawing skills were good. So his teacher's and his parent incitement led to Samuel's success of miniature portraits on ivory. Samuel completed his graduation from Yale Collage in 1811and after charge as a clerk in a Charles town bookstore. During this time his father change his decision allow to learn art at England.  He met respected American artist Benjamin West at Royal Academy where he worked.

Morse returned to America in 1815 and place a studio in Boston at Massachusetts. He discovered large canvas which attracted attention but not sales. Americans needed painters only for portraits,so Morse feel it was difficult to sales. After that he ran out to search work and finally settling in Newyork in 1823. His best canvases portraits of 'The Marquis de Lafayette' and second base on a French general who served with George Washington [1732–1799] during the American Revolution), it was painted by him in Washington at D.C. in 1825.

In 1826 he became the first president of, the National Academy of Design, and arranged to help sales for artist and to raise public awareness. After death of his wife,father and mother he left for Europe.

Morse returned to the US in 1832.Between his long journey he met Charles Thomas Jackson who was an eccentric doctor and inventor and discussed about electromagnetism.Jackson told Morse that an electric impulse could be carried along even a very long wire.

Even though as an art professor of New York he never far from telegraph from his mind. He taken out a patent and attended public lectures about electricity. His sketches of 1832 had clearly laid out the three major parts of the telegraph:
1:A sender, which opened and closed an electric circuit;
2:A receiver, which used an electromagnet to record the signal; and
3:A code, which translated the signal into letters and numbers.

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