# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/samuel-morse
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:05:37.254Z

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description: "He painted presidents, then rewired how the world talks. Morse's single-wire telegraph turned distance into a click and a pause — and the code that carries his name became the first language machines could speak."
tagline: "American inventor and painter (1791–1872)"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born April 27, 1791, and spent his early career as a portrait painter, building a solid reputation on canvas. In middle age he pivoted hard: working from European telegraph designs, he developed a single-wire system that made long-distance communication suddenly practical. In 1837 he co-developed the code that would bear his name, a sequence of dots and dashes that turned letters into electrical pulses. He then pushed the telegraph into commercial viability, watching it spread across continents. He died April 2, 1872, having lived long enough to see wires stitch the world together.