A handwritten telegraph message by Samuel Morse. Press copy of telegram, undated. The message is in English and reads: "Hon. W. P. Blake, State Department, Washington. / I wait only the proofs in ...

The 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was observed quietly Sunday by his granddaughter, Ms. Clara Morse, by the placing of a bouquet in his memory on the ...

PORTSMOUTH — Twenty years before Samuel F.B. Morse changed the world with his electric telegraph, he was an itinerant painter in Portsmouth. Two of his paintings are part of a new exhibit at the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a century, lives and the world were affected by messages sent and received via a series of formalized “dits” and “dahs” known as Morse code. The tones are created by a ...

DEER LODGE — A steady series of clicks — to the untrained ear no different from one another — resonated from the telegraph key as Kerry Facincani opened the meeting with the traditional message first ...

FERGUSON, Mo. -- Staccato clicks tapped from an old brass gadget. Derek Cohn, his ear fixed upon the mysterious rhythm, jotted letters onto paper. From Bloomington, Ill., came the weather report: ...

SAMUEL FINLEY Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an accomplished artist who painted portraits of Presidents and other dignitaries, and was also a widely influential art professor. But he is most remembered ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Photograph of Morse taken by Mathew ...