Samuel Morse

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Samuel Morse was an American inventor and painter best known for co-developing the Morse code and contributing to the invention of the single-wire telegraph system.

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Samuel Morse canonical 10
Samuel F. B. Morse 6
Samuel Finley Breese Morse 2

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
inventor
painter
awardReceived Légion d'honneur
surface form: Legion of Honour

Order of Isabella the Catholic
birthDate 1791-04-27
birthPlace Charlestown, Massachusetts Bay Colony
surface form: Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States
burialPlace Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States
causeOfDeath pneumonia
coDeveloperOf Morse code
collaboratedWith Alfred Vail
contributedTo invention of the single-wire telegraph system
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
deathDate 1872-04-02
deathPlace New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
developed Morse code
surface form: Morse-Vail telegraph system
educatedAt Royal Academy of Arts
Yale College
familyName Morse
fieldOfWork electrical engineering
portrait painting
telecommunications
founded National Academy of Design
fullName Samuel Morse self-linksurface differs
surface form: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
genre portrait
givenName Samuel
knownFor Morse code
single-wire telegraph system
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement American art
name Samuel Morse self-link
notableWork Louvre Museum
surface form: Gallery of the Louvre
numberOfChildren 7
occupation inventor
painter
parent Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese Morse
Jedidiah Morse
patent telegraph system patent (US 1647)
positionHeld Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the University of the City of New York
religion Calvinism
residence New York City
surface form: New York City, New York, United States
signature Samuel Morse signature
spouse Lucretia Pickering Walker Morse
Sarah Elizabeth Griswold Morse

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Locust Grove Estate formerResidenceOf Samuel Morse
this entity surface form: Samuel F. B. Morse
Locust Grove Estate notableResident Samuel Morse
this entity surface form: Samuel F. B. Morse
Samuel Morse name Samuel Morse self-link
Samuel Morse fullName Samuel Morse self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Morse College namedAfter Samuel Morse
this entity surface form: Samuel F. B. Morse
Morse College namedAfter Samuel Morse
this entity surface form: Samuel Finley Breese Morse
Daniel Huntington studiedUnder Samuel Morse
this entity surface form: Samuel F. B. Morse
Morse code namedAfter Samuel Morse
Morse code developedBy Samuel Morse
Morse hasNotableBearer Samuel Morse
Jedidiah Morse child Samuel Morse
this entity surface form: Samuel F. B. Morse
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York, United States hasNotableBurials Samuel Morse
subject surface form: Green-Wood Cemetery
this entity surface form: Samuel F. B. Morse
Alfred Vail collaboratedWith Samuel Morse