Morse

From IPS-Compendium

Morse, Samuel F B : The eldest son of a Charlestown clergyman, who first took up art and travelled to Europe in 1829 to study. However, deeply impressed by various electro-magnetic experiments, devised a new type of telegraph on his way home in 1832. Constructed it first in 1836 using an electro-magnet to press pen onto a paper strip – short impulses made dots, long ones dashes. Patented Morse Code in 1840 Appointed Professor of Natural History at Yale Died 1872.