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Fleischmanns, NY: Purple Mountain Press, 2000. This did not, however, ensure that Morse could collect all the royalties due him.

Tiner, John Hudson. Morse then traveled to Europe seeking both sponsorship and patents, but in London discovered that, due to an already established patent, no patent was available for his work.

Samuel took a job as a clerk in a Charlestown bookstore. Morse married a poor cousin in 1848.

Trivia

• Morse invented a marble-cutting machine that could carve three dimensionalsculptures in marble or stone. One was Leonard Gale, a professor of science at New York University, and the other, Alfred Vail, a brilliant young man who made available both his mechanical skills and his family's New Jersey iron works to help construct telegraph models.

  With the his partners' assistance, Morse applied for a patent for his new telegraph in 1837, which he described as including a dot and dash code to represent numbers, a dictionary to turn the numbers into words and a set of sawtooth type for sending signals.

  In 1838, at the age of 47, Samuel F.B.

  Morse, one of the country's leading portraitists, put aside his palette and brushes to devote all his time to developing the telegraph.

  While displaying his invention at an 1838 exhibition in New York, Morse transmitted 10 words per minute.

  Other claims to the invention of the telegraph

  William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone reached the stage of launching a commercial telegraph prior to Morse.

  Morse and Gale were soon joined by a young enthusiastic man, Alfred Vail, who had excellent skills, insights, and money.

  In 1838, a trip to Washington, D.C. failed to attract federal sponsorship for a telegraph line. He was not bitter about this. In his treatise "An Argument on the Ethical Position of Slavery," he wrote:

  My creed on the subject of slavery is short.

  While in Europe, Morse also studied under famed portrait painter Benjamin West. His new house and ranch, named Locust Grove (now the Samuel Morse Historic Site), included 100 acres of land just outside of Poughkeepsie, New York.

  

  Credits

  New World Encyclopedia writers and editors rewrote and completed the Wikipedia article in accordance with New World Encyclopediastandards. Morse couldn't patent it, however, because of an existing 1820 Thomas Blanchard design.

• New York University's core curriculum and list of requirements is known as the Morse Academic Plan (MAP).
• There is a blue plaque commemorating him at 141 Cleveland Street, London, where he lived 1812-15.

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  His breakthrough came from the insights of Professor Leonard Gale, who taught chemistry at New York University (a personal friend of American physicist Joseph Henry). From the Capitol building in Washington, Morse sent a Biblical quotation as the first formal message on the line to Baltimore, stating, "What hath God wrought!"

  Given 12 years in the making, most Americans had ignored Morse's efforts to develop his technological wonder.

  Morse later recalled that he reacted to this news with the thought that "if this be so, and the presence of electricity can be made visible in any desired part of the circuit,

  Samuel F. B. Morse.