Antique April 20, 1872 edition of Harper's Weekly, showing a large engraving of The Late Samuel Morse, from the photograph by Matthew Brady. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of the Morse code, and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
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