The great portrait painter and inventor who will forever be memorialized in a series of dots and dashes. Frank Jewett Mather Jr. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...
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You're probably already familiar with Samuel Morse's work, thanks to a bunch of dots and dashes. Morse invented his namesake code, a way to communicate using only ...
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A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...
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>> Samuel Morse was inspired to explore a means of rapid long distance communication after suffering a personal tragedy in 1825. While at Washington DC, Morse had received a letter from his father ...
It’s the dream of everybody who has ever browsed a second-hand store, attended an estate sale or watched “Antiques Roadshow” – finding a historically interesting and potentially valuable object others ...
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