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April 27, 2015, Marks 224th Anniversary of Samuel F.B. Morse’s Birthday

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The man who lent his name to the Morse code, Samuel F.B. Morse, was born 224 years ago today near Boston. According to an EDN blog by Jessica MacNeil,Morse was a bit of a renaissance man who was already established as a portrait painter before shifting his focus to communication in the 1830s.

“Morse became fascinated with the idea of transmitting messages instantly using electricity,” MacNeil wr...

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