The Nation

Morse and the Telegraph

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 ...
The Daily Progress

Code of honor: Father and son bring accurate telegraph history to 'Lincoln'

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 from ...

Who invented Morse code?

Morse code was invented by American inventor Samuel Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail during the period of 1837–1844. This ...
The Baltimore Sun

Samuel F.B. Morse gave the first public telegraph demonstration 178 years ago in Baltimore. The federal government was less than impressed.

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 ...