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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
Disegno tratto dai diari 22 dicembre 1829November 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.Presidente Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) presidente dal 1837 al 1841



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