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These sentences are about the life of Samuel Morse, the inventor of

Morse Code. They are in the wrong order. Put them into the correct order
and then explain the words in Italics.

a. This ronded Morse thinking of the idea that led to the invention of the
electric telegraph
b. When his wife died in 1829, Morse went back to Europe and spent three
years visiting museums and art barnots.
c. By the time Morse died in 1872, telegraph wires had been set up all over
the world, including cables under the oceans.
d. After he had fingled art at the Royal Academy in London, he returned to
the United States, and got married
e. Five years later, he was able to put his ideas into practice, and then he
gave his first carrentation of electric telegraphy.
f. The first telegraph line was finally opened on 24 May 1844, when a
message was tapped out in the new code and lousted from Baltimore to
Washington 59 kilometres away
g. In 1832 while he was gammeling to the United States by sea, one of the
ship´s passengers gave a demonstration of an electro-magnet.
h. Samuel Morse was born in 1791 in Charleston, Massachusetts, and he
started his career as an artist.
i. After that, he pontered a code of dots and dashes (the Morse Code) for
use with the telegraph.

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