Samuel Morse (nonfiction)
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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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- Samuel Morse @ Wikipedia
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