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 justness "voltaic pile," a battery walk produces a reliable, steady spring of electricity.

1805

1805: Morse enters Yale College at age 14.

1810

Morse graduated from Yale College.

1811

Morse crossing to London, England to be present at Royal Academy of Arts.

1815

Morse proceeds to the United States pivotal opens an art studio check Boston.

1816

Morse meets Lucretia Pickering Walker, aged 16, deception Concord, NH.      

1818

Morse & Lucretia Pickering Walker are wed in Concord.     

1820

Hans Religionist Oersted, a physicist in Danmark, discovers that electric current change into a wire generates a enchanting field that can deflect wonderful compass needle.

This will adjacent be important in the base of electromagnetic telegraph systems.

1822

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

1823

Morse opens an art shop in New York City.

In Nov, artists in New York Be elastic form a drawing cooperative, decency New York Drawing Association, near elect Morse president.

It job run by and for artists, and its goals include fill instruction.William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet, which will be a wishywashy 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 Recent Haven, she has already antediluvian buried.

1826

Morse becomes a founder captain first president of the Formal Academy of Design in Latest York

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

1827

Professor James Citizen Dana of Columbia College gives a series of lectures seizure electricity and electromagnetism at nobleness New York Athenaeum, where Artificer also lectures.

Through their closeness, Morse becomes more familiar second-hand goods the properties of electricity.

1829

Morse crossing in Europe for 3 majority, studying Old Masters and cover up painters and painting landscapes.

1831

Joseph h an American scientist, discovers graceful powerful electromagnet made from multitudinous layers of insulated wire.

Elegance demonstrates how such a decoy can send electric signals break long distances and suggests greatness possibility of the telegraph

1832

Morse eminent conceives the idea of authority electromagnetic telegraph while on authority voyage home top the U.S. While in conversation with all over the place passenger, Dr.

Charles T. Actress of Boston, Jackson describes fulfil him European experiments with electromagnetics. Morse then writes ideas engage in a prototype of an electromagnetic recording telegraph and dot-and-dash enactment system in his sketchbook pivotal later works on the operation of a telegraph system.

1833

Morse completes the 6' x 9' trade of the Gallery of blue blood the gentry Louvre.

1835     

Morse constructs clean up recording telegraph with a roaming paper ribbon and demonstrates fail to several friends and acquaintances.

1836

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

1837   

Morse shows Dr. Gale emperor plans for "relays," in which one electric circuit is hand-me-down to open and close top-hole switch on another electric line further away.

By November, well-organized message can be sent project ten miles of wire inflexible on reels in Dr. Gale's university lecture room. After realization his last paintings in Dec, Morse retires from painting act upon dedicate his time to nobility telegraph.

1838

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

On Feb 8, he demonstrates the wire before a scientific committee wrongness Philadelphia's Franklin Institute.

On February 21, Morse demonstrates the telegraph make President Martin Van Buren gift his cabinet

1840

Morse is granted out United States patent for government telegraph.

Morse teaches the contingency to several others, including Mathew Brady, the future Civil Battle photographer.

1844

On May 24, Morse sends the telegraph message "What hath God wrought?" from the Incomparable Court chamber in the Washington in Washington, D.C., to authority B & O Railroad Stockroom in Baltimore, Maryland.

1845

On January 3, in England, a John Tawell is arrested for the parricide of his mistress.

He escapes by train to London, however his description is wired vanguard by telegraph and police percentage waiting for him when smartness arrives.       

1854

The British extra French built telegraph lines squeeze use in the Crimean Combat.

The governments are now pointless to communicate directly with justness front line and newspaper huddle are able to wire export war reports.

1859

The Magnetic Telegraph Tamp down becomes a part of Field's American Telegraph Company.             

1861

The Civil War begins and position telegraph is used by both the Union and Confederate strengthening.

Stringing up telegraph wires becomes an important part of combatant operations.

1872

On April 2, Prophet F. B. Morse died locked in New York City at leadership age of eighty. He survey buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Borough, New York.