Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, are credited with inventing the electric telegraph, but they were helped by the ideas of others. When Morse sent the first official telegraph message ...

In 1832 Samuel F. B. Morse, assisted by Alfred Vail, conceived of the idea for an electromechanical telegraph, which he called the "Recording Telegraph." This commercial application of electricity was ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Morse Telegraph—Its Principle ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 8 No. 20 (January 1853), p. 156 doi:10.1038 ...

Morse died from cancer in 1969 at the age of 46, before Polaroid had expanded into a global brand and cultural touch point, before the toy camera craze had peaked, and long before Polaroid filed ...

THE death of Inspector Morse helped ITV trounce BBC1 in the ratings war. More than 50% of Wednesday's peak-time television audience watched actor John Thaw bow out as the irritable detective after ...

Israel’s leading writer: ‘We’re used to war – but this is something new’ Author Etgar Keret reveals the warped normality of life in one of earth’s most battle-torn regions ...