4 Quotes & Sayings By Samuel Morse

Samuel F. B. Morse was an inventor and engineer, most notable for inventing the telegraph, with his colleague Alfred Vail. Morse's major inventions include the first practical printing telegraph in 1837 and the first electric telegraph in 1832 Read more

In addition to this, he invented a system of dots and dashes to represent letters of the alphabet, a forerunner of Morse code.

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My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ordained from the beginning of the world for the wisest purposes, benevolent and disciplinary, by Divine Wisdom. Samuel Morse
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[It would not be long] ere the whole surface of this country would be channelled for those nerves which are to diffuse, with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land, making, in fact, one neighborhood of the whole country. Samuel Morse
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If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity. Samuel Morse