Samuel Morse The Inventor
Samuel Morse was born in Charleston, Mass. on April 27th 1791 and died in 1872 in New York City. Because his father was a minister, he lived in a religious family that had a good deal of influence on him as he grew up. Even as a boy Samuel had a real gift for art. Morse greatly helped form the National Academy of Design and was their first president. He went to Yale and studied chemistry with Benjamin Silliman and natural philosophy with Benjamin Day. Both professors lectured on the science of electricity. Although Morse worked on chemistry and built a few batteries in his spare time, his real passion was art. He graduated from Yale in 1810. He wanted to study art, but his father did not share his passion. After countless effort of begging and pleading, his father reluctantly agreed to let him study art. His first and only sculpture was of a dying Hercules. He finished it in 1813 and got a gold medal in the
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