The Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by Series The online presentation of The Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress comprises about 6, 500 items, or approximately 50, 000 images, that document Morse's invention of the electromagnetic telegraph, his participation in the development of telegraph systems in the United States and ...

Unit 2: Those Inventive Americans! Suggested Activities Samuel F. B. Morse Era 4: Expansion and Reform Samuel F. B. Morse was an artist by training and worked successfully as a portrait painter until the 1830s. This self-portrait was made when Morse was only twenty-one years old. Today, however, Morse is primarily remembered as the inventor of the electric telegraph and the related code system ...