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Samuel Finley Breeze Morse (1791- 1872) pioneered the development of the Morse code and the telegraph machine. He was an artist too.

With the assistance of Leonard Gale, he constructed a model of a telegraph machine and gave the first real demonstration on 2 September 1837.

What is telegraphy? It is the obsolescent term for communication at a distance of documentary matter such as written, printed or pictorial matter or the reproduction at a distance of any kind of information. Now a part of telecommunication.

The most important feature of Morse's telegraph was the use of an electromagnet at the receiver. The first message was sent by Morse on 24 May 1844, using a new era of long distance transmission.

The message read: "What hath God wrought"

Tags: Morse's Telegraph, telecommunication, Breeze Morse, Morse code