Based on the True Story of Samuel Finley Breese Morse
​                     ...the Father of Communications

take the epic journey through the extraordinary life of the man known for inventing the electric telegraph ... and changing the world forever

Samuel F B Morse is perhaps best known for Morse Code, but what most people don't know, is that he was a painter first of great historical portraits, such as Presidents John Adams and James Munroe and the Marquis de LaFayette. He painted grand canvases such as the Gallery of the Louvre and the House of Representatives. If painting wasn't enough, his ambitions led him to be a founder and the first President of the National Academy of Design. Along with Thomas Cole, they influenced the movement later called the Hudson River School. It was Morse who introduced daguerreotype photography to the United States after meeting Louis Daguerre; and then teaching his young student Mathew Brady. Along the way, Morse was captivated by electro-magnetism, sparking an idea in his mind of a way to communicate. He built the first telegraph in his art studio. He then engaged with Alfred Vail and Leonard Gale to make improvements. The three men completed a machine known as an electric telegraph and in 1838 demonstrated it for the first time in public at Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey. Morse never painted again as he devoted his life to improving the telegraph and to spreading lines across the globe to enable the world to communicate with the speed of lightning. His accomplishments never came easy as he suffered through poverty and depression and at a great loss to his personal life.

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