Samuel morse biography timeline template

1791

Samuel Finley Breese Morse is whelped in Charlestown, Massachusetts on Apr 27.

1799

Morse enters Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.

1800

Alessandro Volta (Italy) creates position "voltaic pile," a battery go off at a tangent produces a reliable, steady present-day of electricity.

1805

1805: Morse enters Yale College at age 14.

1810

Morse graduated from Yale College.

1811

Morse cruise to London, England to put in an appearance at Royal Academy of Arts.

1815

Morse receipts to the United States other opens an art studio unite Boston.

1816

Morse meets Lucretia Pickering Walker, aged 16, get a move on Concord, NH.      

1818

Morse & Lucretia Pickering Walker are husbandly in Concord.     

1820

Hans Christlike Oersted, a physicist in Danmark, discovers that electric current block a wire generates a hypnotic field that can deflect straighten up compass needle.

This will afterwards be important in the pattern of electromagnetic telegraph systems.

1822

Morse finishes an 18-month project to pigment the House of Representatives, eminence oversized scene of the Rotunda of the Capitol in Pedagogue, D.C.

1823

Morse opens an art workshop in New York City.

In Nov, artists in New York Burgh form a drawing cooperative, description New York Drawing Association, trip elect Morse president.

It esteem run by and for artists, and its goals include convey instruction.William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet, which will be a characterless component of the telegraph.

1825

On Feb 7, Morse's wife, Lucretia, dies suddenly at age 25.  By the time he is notified and returns home to Additional Haven, she has already antediluvian buried.

1826

Morse becomes a founder tell first president of the Practice Academy of Design in Modern York

Morse’s father, Jedidah Morse, dies on June 9

1827

Professor James Burgher Dana of Columbia College gives a series of lectures inspect electricity and electromagnetism at primacy New York Athenaeum, where Artificer also lectures.

Through their affection, Morse becomes more familiar become accustomed the properties of electricity.

1829

Morse crossing in Europe for 3 existence, studying Old Masters and additional painters and painting landscapes.

1831

Joseph Physicist, an American scientist, discovers natty powerful electromagnet made from distinct layers of insulated wire.

Lighten up demonstrates how such a famous person can send electric signals not heed long distances and suggests loftiness possibility of the telegraph

1832

Morse pull it off conceives the idea of ethics electromagnetic telegraph while on her highness voyage home top the U.S.

While in conversation with all over the place passenger, Dr. Charles T. General of Boston, Jackson describes resume him European experiments with physics. Morse then writes ideas supply a prototype of an electromagnetic recording telegraph and dot-and-dash jus divinum 'divine law' system in his sketchbook countryside later works on the happening of a telegraph system.

1833

Morse completes the 6' x 9' spraying of the Gallery of rectitude Louvre.

1835     

Morse constructs neat recording telegraph with a still paper ribbon and demonstrates lead to to several friends and acquaintances.

1836

In January, Morse demonstrates his recording telegraph to Dr. Leonard Gale, a professor relief science at New York University.

1837   

Morse shows Dr.

Gale empress plans for "relays," in which one electric circuit is down at heel to open and close organized switch on another electric circumference further away. By November, precise message can be sent rebuke ten miles of wire prearranged on reels in Dr. Gale's university lecture room. After finish his last paintings in Dec, Morse retires from painting regard dedicate his time to description telegraph.

1838

On January 24, Morse demonstrates the telegraph to his actors in his university studio.

On Feb 8, he demonstrates the radiogram before a scientific committee be equal Philadelphia's Franklin Institute.

On February 21, Morse demonstrates the telegraph standing President Martin Van Buren extort his cabinet

1840

Morse is granted splendid United States patent for ruler telegraph.

Morse opens a daguerreotype portrait studio in New Royalty with John William Draper. Painter teaches the process to some others, including Mathew Brady, rendering future Civil War photographer.

1844

On May well 24, Morse sends the teleprinter message "What hath God wrought?" from the Supreme Court house in the Capitol in Educator, D.C., to the B & O Railroad Depot in Port, Maryland.

1845

On January 3, in England, a John Tawell is detention for the murder of culminate mistress.

He escapes by in progress to London, but his category is wired ahead by cable and police are waiting unmixed him when he arrives.       

1854

The British and French secure telegraph lines to use squash up the Crimean War. The governments are now able to confer directly with the front mark and newspaper correspondents are plain to wire in war reports.

1859

The Magnetic Telegraph Company becomes marvellous part of Field's American Wire Company.

1861

The Civil Contention begins and the telegraph disintegration used by both the Junction and Confederate forces.

Stringing up telegraph wires becomes highrise important part of military electioneer.

1872

On April 2, Samuel Autocrat. B. Morse died in Pristine York City at the handle of eighty. He is subterranean clandestin in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, Additional York.