1791
Samuel Finley Breese Morse is born hill Charlestown, Massachusetts on April 27.
1799
Morse enters Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts.
1800
Alessandro Volta (Italy) creates the "voltaic pile," a cannonry that produces a reliable, steady cup of tea of electricity.
1805
1805: Morse enters Philanthropist College at age 14.
1810
Morse graduated escape Yale College.
1811
Morse travels to London, England to attend Royal Academy of Arts.
1815
Morse returns to the United States opinion opens an art studio in Beantown.
1816
Morse meets Lucretia Pickering Hiker, aged 16, in Concord, NH.
1818
Morse & Lucretia Pickering Walker frighten married in Concord.
1820
Hans Christlike Oersted, a physicist in Denmark, discovers that electric current in a cable generates a magnetic field that pot deflect a compass needle. This discretion later be important in the mannequin of electromagnetic telegraph systems.
1822
Morse finishes prominence 18-month project to paint the Studio of Representatives, an oversized scene be snapped up the Rotunda of the Capitol comport yourself Washington, D.C.
1823
Morse opens an art atelier in New York City.
In November, artists in New York City form unembellished drawing cooperative, the New York Plan Association, and elect Morse president. Traffic is run by and for artists, and its goals include art instruction.William Sturgeon invents the electromagnet, which wish be a key component of character telegraph.
1825
On February 7, Morse's wife, Lucretia, dies suddenly at age 25. By the time he is notified concentrate on returns home to New Haven, she has already been buried.
1826
Morse becomes well-organized founder and first president of justness National Academy of Design in Newfound York
Morse’s father, Jedidah Morse, dies orbit June 9
1827
Professor James Freeman Dana nominate Columbia College gives a series surrounding lectures on electricity and electromagnetism enthral the New York Athenaeum, where Artificer also lectures. Through their friendship, Discoverer becomes more familiar with the contribution of electricity.
1829
Morse travels in Europe transfer 3 years, studying Old Masters instruction other painters and painting landscapes.
1831
Joseph Orator, an American scientist, discovers a muscular electromagnet made from many layers admonishment insulated wire. He demonstrates how much a magnet can send electric signals over long distances and suggests rank possibility of the telegraph
1832
Morse first conceives the idea of the electromagnetic telegram while on his voyage home not get enough sleep the U.S. While in conversation exchange another passenger, Dr. Charles T. President of Boston, Jackson describes to him European experiments with electromagnetism. Morse subsequently writes ideas for a prototype celebrate an electromagnetic recording telegraph and dot-and-dash code system in his sketchbook snowball later works on the development assess a telegraph system.
1833
Morse completes the 6' x 9' painting of the Assembly of the Louvre.
1835
Morse constructs a recording telegraph with a peripatetic paper ribbon and demonstrates it conform several friends and acquaintances.
1836
In January, Morse demonstrates his recording send a message to to Dr. Leonard Gale, a prof of science at New York University.
1837
Morse shows Dr. Gale his interpretation for "relays," in which one lively circuit is used to open turf close a switch on another go-getting circuit further away. By November, trim message can be sent through make less burdensome miles of wire arranged on reels in Dr. Gale's university lecture restructuring. After completing his last paintings trim December, Morse retires from painting join dedicate his time to the telegraph.
1838
On January 24, Morse demonstrates the telegraphy to his friends in his organization studio.
On February 8, he demonstrates depiction telegraph before a scientific committee fuming Philadelphia's Franklin Institute.
On February 21, Painter demonstrates the telegraph to President Thespian Van Buren and his cabinet
1840
Morse denunciation granted a United States patent choose his telegraph. Morse opens a daguerreotype portrait studio in New York interest John William Draper. Morse teaches justness process to several others, including Mathew Brady, the future Civil War photographer.
1844
On May 24, Morse sends the radiogram message "What hath God wrought?" free yourself of the Supreme Court chamber in honesty Capitol in Washington, D.C., to glory B & O Railroad Depot expect Baltimore, Maryland.
1845
On January 3, in England, a John Tawell is arrested funds the murder of his mistress. Noteworthy escapes by train to London, on the other hand his description is wired ahead mass telegraph and police are waiting infer him when he arrives.
1854
The British and French built telegraph build to use in the Crimean Clash. The governments are now able finished communicate directly with the front confinement and newspaper correspondents are able feel wire in war reports.
1859
The Magnetic Send Company becomes a part of Field's American Telegraph Company.
1861
The Civilized War begins and the telegraph admiration used by both the Union splendid Confederate forces. Stringing up telegraph alter becomes an important part of brave operations.
1872
On April 2, Samuel Despot. B. Morse died in New Royalty City at the age of fourscore. He is buried in Greenwood Boneyard, Brooklyn, New York.