{"id":1984,"date":"2022-04-02T09:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T16:17:30","slug":"150th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-samuel-morse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/04\/02\/150th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-samuel-morse\/","title":{"rendered":"150th anniversary of the death of Samuel Morse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"481\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Samuel_Morse_with_his_Recorder_by_Brady_1857.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Samuel_Morse_with_his_Recorder_by_Brady_1857.png 413w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Samuel_Morse_with_his_Recorder_by_Brady_1857-258x300.png 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 85vw, 413px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Samuel Morse (1791-1872) was an American inventor and painter who contributed to the invention of a single-wire&nbsp;telegraph system based on European telegraphs. Co-developer of the Morse Code, he helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was also a noted painter \u2013 among others, he was commissioned to paint US President James Monroe in 1820 and Marquis de Lafayette, a leading French supporter of the American Revolution. In 1826 he helped to found the National Academy of Design in New York and was its president for over twenty years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"547\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Morse_telegraph.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Morse_telegraph.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Morse_telegraph-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 85vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Returning by ship from Europe in 1832, Morse encountered Bostonian Charles Thomas Jackson, a man well-schooled in electromagnetism. Witnessing various experiments with Jackson\u2019s electromagnet, Morse developed the concept of a single-wire telegraph. In time, the Morse Code\u00a0that he developed would become the primary language of telegraphy in the world and it is still the standard for rhythmic transmission of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"360\" height=\"199\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Samuel_Morse_plaque.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1988\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Samuel_Morse_plaque.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/03\/Samuel_Morse_plaque-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 85vw, 360px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Morse (1791-1872) was an American inventor and painter who contributed to the invention of a single-wire&nbsp;telegraph system based on European telegraphs. Co-developer of the Morse Code, he helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy. He was also a noted painter \u2013 among others, he was commissioned to paint US President James Monroe in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/2022\/04\/02\/150th-anniversary-of-the-death-of-samuel-morse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;150th anniversary of the death of Samuel Morse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":572,"featured_media":1985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[242],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anniversaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/572"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1989,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/1989"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/culturalcalendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}