Samuel Morse, an American inventor and painter, was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1791.
On April 27, 1791, in Charlestown, Massachusetts, Samuel F.B. Morse was born, the first child of famed geographer and Congregational clergyman Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese. His parents were devoted to his education and the Calvinist beliefs. Except for his passion in painting, his early schooling at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, was unremarkable. Samuel Finley Breese Morse is best known as the creator of the telegraph and Morse Code, but his true passion was painting. When his teenage interest in electronics returned, he was a well-established artist, leading to the communications invention that revolutionised humanity until it was overtaken by the telephone, radio, television, and, eventually, the internet.
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