Samuel Morse wanted to be remembered as a painter. Instead, he invented the telegraph and the code that bears his name — motivated by his wife's death, which he learned about days late because news could not travel faster than a horse. The telegraph was born from grief and changed human communication more than any invention between the printing press and the internet.
This episode traces Morse from his painting career through his wife's death, the telegraph invention, and the patent wars that consumed the rest of his life.
Morse's painting career and the artistic ambitions the telegraph overshadowed
His wife's death and the communication delay that motivated the invention
"What hath God wrought" and the communication revolution it launched
The patent disputes and the artist remembered only as an inventor
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