Samuel Morse

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Morse wasn't majoring in engineer, he first wanted to be a successful artist. Until one day he wanted to make a spin off of the Europeans telegraph. Morse was very determined to make a working model of a telegraph so he took everyday household item and made: "Morse's first telegraph receiver was a simple device, made of everyday household objects-a picture frame fastened to a table, the wheels of an old clock, and lead pieces which he himself melted. He hung a pencil at the end of a pendulum, and used a type rule to break the circuit. It worked on the very first try. But the world was not interested in his new invention, and Morse was out of money."(Watson, Stephanie. "Samuel Morse and the Telegraph.") A true hero must possess hard work a great deal of effort or endurance and dedication the quality of being dedicated or committed to a task or purpose. Samuel Morse performs both of those criteria.  " Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) quickly developed his curiosity in science, art, and politics. After entering Yale College, Morse became fascinated with electricity and its potential use for communication purposes. The allure of an electric telegraph lingered with him after college. More of a visionary than a scientist however, he needed the help of Leonard D. Gale, a chemistry professor in New York. Gale knew of previous scientific proposals for telegraphs and advised Morse as he began to formulate ideas." ("Samuel Morse and the Telegraph." Teaching American History in Maryland. Government) For Samuel Morse he is my hero or role model because of the hard work he puts in every project he does and the amount of dedication he puts into it.

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Samuel Morse was a very good student in school and attended Yale from the hard work he puts into his life.  Morse would give up anything for the work of his job. "Samuel Finley Breese Morse gave his name to a long-dominant means of communicating via telegraph-Morse code-and is credited with inventing the telegraph used in the United States. Perhaps his greatest accomplishment was persuading the federal government to help pay for construction of a demonstration telegraph, a critical step in launching a new era of instantaneous communications across long distances."(Outmans and May) Morse is like a smart move player. Morse got government to pay for his equipment like the show shark tank where you show you product then you get a certain amount of money to perform the job. Well looks like government like the telegraph idea and has decided to pay for the construction of the telegraph. If Morse is going to make a communication system he must make a code to go with his invention and name it after himself. "Developed in the 1830 and 1840 by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph line" With the invention of the telegraph Morse work extra hard to make a language made entirely of dots and dashes. Named Morse Code. For Example A would be .-. It would take hours to do this communication method but it's still faster than finding a messenger to find the man and send the message. Hard worker get the most in life. If everyone worked hard then their would be nothing that incomplete in the world. Then everything would advance much faster. Like from long distance communication to a dot and a dash away.

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The dedication that Samuel Morse puts into every little project is how he is such a good marketman. Morse used the idea of the battery and electric currents to make an invention that change communication. "In the early 19th century, two developments in the field of electricity opened the door to the production of the electric telegraph. First, in 1800, the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) invented the battery, which reliably stored an electric current and allowed the current to be used in a controlled environment. Second, in 1820, the Danish physicist Hans Christian Oersted (1777-1851) demonstrated the connection between electricity and magnetism by deflecting a magnetic needle with an electric current." Samuel Morse was driven to make a telegraph after wanting to become a painter then turning courses to become an industrialist. Morse dedication was to become a painter then he changed his course and put all his life work into re-creating a working telegraph. Because of Morse's success in creating a working product of the telegraph: "At the time when Morse developed his famous code, he was one of many people working on the concept. It was, in the end, not just his code, or the invention of the telegraph itself that counted. What counted was Morse's success in selling the idea to the U.S. Congress, persuading the government to help him fund the project, and thereby attracting world attention to his first message sent over a primitive telegraph system from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland." Morse put lots of time and effort into his work. For all entrepreneur they successful because of the dedication and the portion of their life they put in to succeed and earn money, with their invention. For Morse that would be the working telegraph. Morse's dedication brought him success in life. Without that dedication messenger would still have to travel thousands of miles just to send one tiny message.

For Samuel Morse he is my hero or role model because of the hard work he puts in every project he does and the amount of dedication he puts into it. Samuel Morse has took a long journey like every scientist and inventor goes through which is trial and error. Although Samuel Morse innovative mind got it to work on the first try, it took lots of effort to persuade the government to by his project. Like the show Shark Tank, they come up with something creative then they try to sell it, and earn some profit. Samuel Morse is inspiring to me because although he majored in painting he changed his path. Meaning there is still time to do the thing you love. Samuel Morse's compassion was painting then he took it a step further and use his artistic skills to create a whole new project that brought him success. When I grow older I too would like to create something making it easier in life, like Life Hacks.

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See his letters and journals, ed. by E. L. Morse (1914, repr. 1973); biographies by C. Mabee (1943,

repr. 1969), P. Staiti (1989), and K. Silverman (2003).

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