Samuel Morse

1791–1872
Inventor of Morse code, a system telegraph transmission widely used before the telephone.

Other Resources

Story Links	Book Links
Samuel F. B Morse & the Invention of the Telegraph  in	Great Inventors and Their Inventions  by  Frank P. Bachman
Morse and the Telegraph  in	A First Book in American History  by  Edward Eggleston
The First Telegraph  in	Story of the Great Republic  by  H. A. Guerber
How the Electric Telegraph was Invented  in	Historical Tales, Vol I: American  by  Charles Morris
Samuel F. B. Morse  in	Heroes of Progress in America  by  Charles Morris
Samuel F. B. Morse in	Four American Inventors  by  Frances M. Perry
Samuel F. B. Morse and his Successors  in	Builders of Our Country: Book II  by  Gertrude van Duyn Southworth
Morse, Inventor of the Telegraph  in	Ten Boys from History  by   Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Image Links
Morse Painting the Portrait of Lafayette  in Great Inventors and Their Inventions	Telling Morse about the Passage of the Bill  in Great Inventors and Their Inventions	Samuel F. B. Morse  in Four American Inventors
Young Finley Morse's picture of the family  in Four American Inventors	Mr. Morse making his own instruments  in Four American Inventors	Morse and his friends at Locust Grove  in Four American Inventors
Samuel Morse  in Builders of Our Country: Book II