2-660-959 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Samuel Morse 1791-1872', 1934. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), 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. From "Die Großen der Weltgeschichte". [Eckstein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]