Samuel Morse

Name: Samuel Finley Breese Morse

Born: April 27, 1791, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA

Death: April 2, 1872 (Age: 80)

Computer-related contributions

• Co-inventor of the Morse code.
• American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs.

Honors and awards

• Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg (1852).
• Morse's telegraph was recognized as an IEEE Milestone in 1988.

Quotes

"If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity."