Navy and Coast Guard Why is my invention the best. The language of Morse code was invented by an unlikely painter turned inventor and is still used today, including by ham radio operators or by the U.S. Lead to new inventions and academic classes/courses.
Not just anybody could intercept communications between telegraphs. Impact/usefulness "spread rapidly across the country and then to Europe, for use in wars, business, newspapers and so much else"5Īllowed thoughts, news, and ideas to travel far and wide rapidly.ĭidn't require live messengers to travel or for people and property owners to be payed or bribed unnecessarily. Gale."1 He then spent nearly a decade there in order to perfect his new invention: the telegraph. He sought help at University of the City of New York from chemistry professor Leonard D. Morse began experimenting with batteries and wires, but quickly realized his painting career had not prepared him to tinker with electricity. 'When Morse came to understand how the electromagnet worked, he speculated that it might be possible to send a coded message over a wire,' according to a Library of Congress history. If there was one academic subject that interested him at Yale, it was math. During this trip he stumbled "into a conversation with passengers about Michael Faraday's electromagnet. 'I now feel this void, this desolateness, this loneliness, this heart-sickness.' His heart broken, Morse went on with his painting career, lamenting how he wasn't able to learn of Lucretia's illness until she was dead."1 A couple of years later Morse took a boat trip back home.
Lucretia was buried before Morse could arrive home by stage-coach. Her disease proved to be an affection of the heart.'. My heart is in pain and deeply sorrowful, while I announce to you the sudden and unexpected death of your dear and deservedly-loved wife. 'My whole soul,' Morse once wrote, was 'wrapped up in her,' how she 'connected all that I expected of happiness on earth.'. "Morse was in Washington painting Lafayette in the winter of 1835 when a letter arrived from his father - via horse - saying that his beloved wife Lucretia was ill.
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