Samuel Finley Breese Morse was a painter in the eighteenth century. He painted portraits of solemn-looking men mostly, which perhaps without intending to, conveyed information about his world. You might know him better as co-inventor of the Morse Code. The code of dots and dashes replacing letters and numbers that he developed in 1838 along with Alfred Vail enabled information to be transmitted over the electric telegraph, which Morse had invented a few years earlier. International Morse Code was used in World War II and in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and by the shipping industry until the early 1990’s. The unmistakable beep-be-beeps of Morse code being tip-tapped across the world turned out to be a far better way of communicating information than paintings.
Lots of info, loosely held
Lots of info, loosely held
Lots of info, loosely held
Samuel Finley Breese Morse was a painter in the eighteenth century. He painted portraits of solemn-looking men mostly, which perhaps without intending to, conveyed information about his world. You might know him better as co-inventor of the Morse Code. The code of dots and dashes replacing letters and numbers that he developed in 1838 along with Alfred Vail enabled information to be transmitted over the electric telegraph, which Morse had invented a few years earlier. International Morse Code was used in World War II and in the Korean and Vietnam wars, and by the shipping industry until the early 1990’s. The unmistakable beep-be-beeps of Morse code being tip-tapped across the world turned out to be a far better way of communicating information than paintings.