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Samuel Morse, American painter and academic, invented the Morse code (born 1791)
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Samuel Morse
American inventor and painter (1791–1872)
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American inventor and painter. After establishing his reputation as a portrait painter, Morse, in his middle age, contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Morse code
Transmission of language with brief pulses
Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers of the system adopted for electrical…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)