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Facts

Also Known As Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Born April 27, 1791 • Charlestown • Massachusetts
Died April 2, 1872 (aged 80) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1900)
Inventions Morse Code • telegraph
Movement / Style Bread and Cheese Club

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Engraving of Samuel F.B. Morse seated beside a table with a telegraph model, holding a palette, with a portrait painting on an easel in the background.
Samuel F. B. Morse with the telegraph he developed in the 1830s; photo by Mathew Brady.
Samuel F.B. Morse, marble by Horatio Greenough, 1831; in the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. 49.5 × 30.5 × 22.2 cm.
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