If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

I have been so constantly under the necessity of watching the movements of the most unprincipled set of pirates I have ever known that all my time has been occupied in defense in putting evidence into something like legal shape that I am the inventor of the Electro-Magnetic Telegraph!! Would you have believed it ten years ago that a question could be raised on that subject?


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Morse encountered the problem of getting a telegraphic signal to carry over more than a few hundred yards of wire. On the sea voyage home in 1832 Morse encountered Charles Thomas Jackson of Boston a man who was well schooled in electromagnetism. This work attracted the attention of the notable artist Washington Allston.

He contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs was a co-inventor of the Morse code and also an accompliSamuel Morsed painter. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27 1791 – April 2 1872) was an American inventor.