Samuel Morse (nonfiction)

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American painter and inventor.

After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

He was a co-developer of the Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.

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