Samuel Morse, American painter and creator of the electric telegraph and Morse Code, dies at the age of 80 in 1872.
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter who lived from April 27, 1791 to April 2, 1872. After establishing a reputation as a portrait painter, Morse contributed to the development of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs in his middle years. He was a co-inventor of Morse code and aided in the commercialization of telegraphy. In 1872, Samuel Morse, the American painter and inventor of the electric telegraph and Morse Code, dies at the age of 80.
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