Who is he?

• Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in

Charlestown (April 27, 1791), Massachusetts, the
first child of the pastor Jedidiah Morse, who was
also a geographer, and his wife Elizabeth Ann
Finley Breese.

He was an American painter and inventor.

• Samuel Morse died of pneumonia in the city of

New York, on April 2, 1872, shortly before his 81
birthday.
• He began his studies at Phillips Academy and graduated from
Yale University in 1810 and became oriented towards painting,
establishing his studio in New York; his best known painting is a
portrait of La Fayette he painted in 1825.

• From 1830 to 1832, Morse traveled and studied in Europe to

improve his painting skills, visiting Italy, Switzerland, and France.
During his time in Paris, he developed a friendship with the
writer James Fennimore Cooper.As a project, he painted
miniature copies of 38 of the Louvre's famous paintings on a
single canvas (6 ft. x 9 ft), which he entitled The Gallery of the
Louvre. He completed the work upon his return to the United
States.
 The Gallery of the
Captain Demaresque Louvre 1831–33 Portrait of John
of Gloucester, Adams
Massachusetts
In 1832, after listening to a conversation on the ship in which
he was traveling about the invention of the electromagnet, he
came up with the idea of creating an electric telephone that
would serve to send messages at a distance from a cable. The
idea was not new, but until then no one had materialized it.
Three years later, he had built the first prototype
photographer and in 1838 he had created the code that
allowed the messages, later known as the alphabet or Morse
code, composed of dots and stripes.
• In 1843 the Congress of the United
States gave him 30 thousand dollars to
construct a telegraphic line of 60
kilometers that would unite the cities of
Baltimore and Washington.

• In 1844 the first electromagnetic

telegraph line was ready for the test and
on August 24 of that same year, Morse
sent from the Capitol of Washington to
Baltimore the first telegraphic message in
the world.

• The second telegraph cable was

extended between the cities of
Washington and New Jersey.
• The Morse Code is a means of
communication based on the
transmission and reception of
messages using sounds or rays of light
and an alphanumeric alphabet
composed of dots and stripes.

• This code associates each letter with a

set of point and dashes. The points
are transmitted as electrical impulses
of short duration, and the rays, as
longer impulses. To separate symbols,
a silence equivalent to the duration of
a point is left, and the space between
words is five points.