USA: Samuel F. B. Morse (1791 - 1892), painter and inventor, contributor to the Morse code, portrait photograph by Mathew Brady (1822 - 1896), 1866

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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