Samuel Morse,

Samuel Morse was an American painter and inventor who is best 

remembered today for his invention of single- wire telegraph 

system and the co-inventor of the Morse Code – method of 

translating textual information as a series of on and off tones. His 

discovery changed the way the messages are sent and received in 

the entire world, and even today Morse Code is still in use in various 

areas of radio communications.

Born: April 27, 1791, Boston, Massachusetts, United States Died: April 2, 1872, New York City, New York, United States