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			Samuel Finley Breese Morse

			Charlestown, - Massachusetts 27.April.1791-New York 02.April.1872

			History biographical Samuel Finley Breese Morse




	1791		Born on April 27 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, the firstborn of Jedidiah Morse, Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese.

	1794		Born his brother Sidney Edwards Morse February 7

	1795		The second brother Richard Cary Morse comes to light on June 18.

	1799		Enter at the Phillips, Andover, Massachusetts.

	1805		He began attending the University of Yale

	1810		He graduated at Yale and works at Daniel Mallory, publisher of Boston.

	1811		July Leaves for London with Washington Allston, studied at the Royal Academy of Arts in London
			December Morse staying with Charles Leslie of Philadelphia, another student of painting. He became a friend of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, fellow Charles Bird King, the plaintiff and painter John Howard Payne, and the English painter Benjamin Robert Haydon.

	1812		Morse take part in an art exhibition in London with a clay statue of Hercules death, and wins a medal gold the company to Adelphi.

	1815		October the United States and opens an art studio in Boston

	1816		In search of commissions for portraits sustain economically, Morse travels in New Hampshire and knows Lucretia Pickering, which will be the future wife.

	1818		-29 September Samuel he married Lucretia Walker Pickering to Concord, New Hampshire.

	1919		-2 September the first-born Susan Walker Morse
			The city of Charleston to Morse commissioned a portrait of President James Monroe.

	1823		March 7 Born the second son Charles Walker Morse.
			Opens a study art in New York City

	1825		January 7 the third child born Edward James Finley Morse
			On 7 February the wife dies suddenly Lucrezia age of 25 years.

	1826		January-founded the National Academy of Design in New York where he became its president
			On 9 June the father dies Jedidiah

	1828		May 28 dies mother Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese
	1829		November Leave their children to relatives and party for the visit Europe where Lafayette in Paris and visit museums throughout Europe.

	1832		And 'appointed professor of painting and sculpture at New York (now New York University).

	1835		And 'appointed Professor of Literature of the Arts and Design at the University of the City of New York
			Post Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States (New York: Leavitt, Lord & co.) In the periodical New York Observer.Morse construct a telegraph recorder with a tape of paper and show a lot of friends and acquaintances.

	1836		It applies to the election as Mayor of New York in party (anti-immigration) and obtained 1,496 votes.

	1837		September 28 presents Morse patent for the telegraph. Yes withdraws from a painter to devote himself to telegraph

	1838		January Morse code creates the famous
			February 8 presents the Morse telegraph to the Scientific Committee of Philadelphia's Franklin Institute. and the Office House of Representatives Committee on Commerce, presided over by F.O. J.Smith of Maine.

			February 21 presents the Morse telegraph to President Martin Van Buren in his studio.
			The March member of Congress Smith membership in the telegraph, with Morse, and Alfred Vail Leonard Gale.
			On 6 April Smith promotes congress in the allocation of a sum of $ 30,000 to build a line of telegraph fifty miles, but is not approved May Morse is in Europe for patent for its electromagnetic telegraph in England, France and Russia. But only obtains patents French.

	1839		In Paris, Morse met Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerreotype, and publish the first in America to the process of photography. Morse is one of the pioneers of "daguerreotypes" in the USA

	1840		Morse gets a patent in the United States for his telegraph.
			Opens a study Dragherrotypie (photo) with John William Draper in New York

	1841		His presence as a candidate for mayor but gets less than one hundred votes.

	1842		Morse experiences underwater transmission for two miles between Battery and Governor's Island in New York Harbor

	1843		March 3 The Congress has allocated $ 30,000 for an experimental telegraph line from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, Maryland. Construction of the line will begin several months later.

	1844		24 May Morse transmits the message telegraphic "What hath God wrought?" By the Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol in Washington, DC, storage rail B & O Railroad Depot in Baltimore, Maryland.

	1845		Spring Morse chooses as its agent for the USA Amos Kendall,
			In May, Kendall and F. O. J. Smith The telegraph from Baltimore to Philadelphia and New York. found the Magnetic Telegraph Company for the Magnetic
			Summer Morse is in Europe to promote its patents and ensure its rights to the telegraph.

	1847		Morse bought the grove of Locust, (Locust Grove) a property that is crossed by the Hudson River near Poughkeepsie, New York (Hudson).

	1848		Bride Sarah Elizabeth Griswold, a second cousin, twenty-six years younger than him, on August 10.

	1849		Born Samuel Arthur Breese Morse July 25, the fourth son.

	1851		April 8 sees the light on the fifth child, Cornelia (Leila) Livingston Morse.

	1853		Born the sixth child Goodrich William Morse January 31

	1854		The Supreme Court hears U.S. complaints of Morse for a patent on the telegraph. All U.S. companies that use its system begin to pay copyright to Morse. Morse is a democratic candidate in the district of Poughkeepsie, New York. But not successful

	1857		On 29 March was born on the seventh and last child Edward Morse Lind 1857-1858 Morse is adviser to the Cyrus W. Field's company for the laying of the first transatlantic cable but fails.

	1859		The Magnetic Telegraph Company is incorporated by Field's American Telegraph Company.

	1865		Morse is director of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

	1866		He moved with his second wife and their four children in France, and stay there until 1868.8.

	1867		Morse is representative of the United States at the universal of Paris.

	1872		On 2 April Morse died in New York City at the age of eighty years. It is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn

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