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Samuel Finley Breese Morse ( April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872 ) was an American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and an accomplished painter.
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In 1865, Dahlgren married his second wife, Sarah Madeleine Vinton, daughter of Congressman Samuel Finley Vinton and Romaine Madeleine Bureau, and the widow of Daniel Convers Goddard, first Assistant Secretary of the newly-created U. S. Department of the Interior.
The first lots were sold to Samuel Finley, Hugh Holmes, William McElwain, Robert and David Officer, Isaac Jamison, and William McMonnagle.
The rest of the new ownership group was made up of Samuel J. Plumeri, Sr., Joseph Finley, Joseph Caruso and Jim Maloney who are the principal owners of the team and the other minority owner / managing partner of the team Garden State Stadium Corporation.
Montgomery was on his mother's side related to 1761-1766 Princeton President, Samuel Finley ( 1715 – 66 ).
File: Brooklyn Museum-Portrait of John Adams-Samuel Finley Breese Morse-overall. jpg | Samuel Morse, Portrait of John Adams, 1816
Dr. Finley and Samuel John Mills helped organize the National Colonization Society of America and the American Colonization Society at Washington, D. C. in 1816 and 1817.
Wilkins was the first recipient of the Samuel Finley Breese Morse Medal, which was awarded to him by the American Geographical Society in 1928.
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Manchester's unusual interest in telegraphy has often been attributed to the fact that the Rev. J. D. Wickham, headmaster of Burr and Burton Seminary, was a personal friend and correspondent of the inventor, Samuel F. B. Morse.
Cuba and Puerto Rico, reached tremendous levels of development and wealth, to the point that Spain's First Train was between Havana and Camaguey, and the world's first telegraph was in Puerto Rico, as Samuel Morse lived there with his daughter, married to a Puerto Rican businessman.
* 1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message " What hath God wrought " ( a biblical quotation, Numbers 23: 23 ) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
Samuel Morse received his first ever patent for the telegraph in 1847, at the old Beylerbeyi Palace ( the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861 – 1865 on the same location ) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid who personally tested the new invention.
After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, Samuel Morse went on to Yale College to receive instruction in the subjects of religious philosophy, mathematics and science of horses.
Although Samuel Morse respected his father ’ s religious opinions, he sympathized with the Unitarians.
Samuel Morse received a patent for the telegraph in 1847, at the old Beylerbeyi Palace ( the present Beylerbeyi Palace was built in 1861 – 1865 on the same location ) in Istanbul, which was issued by Sultan Abdülmecid who personally tested the new invention.
The first lines transmitted by Samuel Morse that day in Puerto Rico were: " Puerto Rico, beautiful jewel!
There was still no such recognition in the U. S. This remained the case until June 10, 1871, when a bronze statue of Samuel Morse was unveiled in Central Park, New York City.
Statue of Samuel F. B. Morse by Byron M. Picket, Central Park | New York's Central Park, dedicated 1871
In 1837, American artist-turned inventor Samuel F. B. Morse conducted the first successful experiment with an electrical recording telegraph.
An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse.
The telegram sent by Samuel Morse | Samuel F. B. Morse from the Capitol in Washington to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in 1844: " What hath God wrought "
Prominent experimenters along these lines included Samuel F. B. Morse in the United States and James Bowman Lindsay in Great Britain.
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Among the more than two dozen exhibitors who attended the first meeting held in New York on April 25, 1917, were Frederick Dahnken of the Turner and Dahnken Circuit in San Francisco, Harry O. Schwalbe of Philadelphia, Samuel Roxy Rothafel of New York, Earl H. Hulsey of Dallas and Nathan H. Gordon of Boston.
In an 19 April 1667, entry in his Diary, Samuel Pepys called Davenant's MacBeth " one of the best plays for a stage, and variety of dancing and music, that ever I saw.
Samuel Loyd ( January 30, 1841 – April 10, 1911 ), born in Philadelphia and raised in New York, was an American chess player, chess composer, puzzle author, and recreational mathematician.
Following his April 1789 inauguration, President George Washington occupied two executive mansions in New York City: the Samuel Osgood House at 3 Cherry Street ( April 1789 – February 1790 ), and the Alexander Macomb House at 39 – 41 Broadway ( February – August 1790 ).
William Wordsworth ( 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850 ) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.
* April 18 – The United States Navy retaliates for the USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) mining with Operation Praying Mantis, in a day of strikes against Iranian oil platforms and naval vessels.
* April 15 – A Dictionary of the English Language is published by Samuel Johnson ( he had begun the work 9 years earlier, in 1746 ).
* April 13 – Samuel Argall captures Algonquian princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father.
* April 27 – The blind, impoverished, 58-year-old John Milton sells the copyright of his epic poem Paradise Lost to London publisher Samuel Simmons for an initial payment of £ 5.
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