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.

* 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.

* 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.

Noah Webster painted by Samuel F. B. Morse

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.

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.

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.

Original Samuel Morse telegraph

The original patent went to the Breese side of the family after the death of Samuel Morse.

The first lines transmitted by Samuel Morse that day in Puerto Rico were: " Puerto Rico, beautiful jewel!

Portrait of Samuel F. B. Morse taken by Mathew Brady, in 1866.

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

Samuel Morse was a generous man who gave large sums to charity.

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.

The two most prominent Macbeths of mid-century, Samuel Phelps and Charles Kean, were both received with critical ambivalence and popular success.

Samuel Colt received a British patent for his revolver in 1835 and an American patent ( number 138 ) on February 25, 1836 for a Revolving gun, and made the first production model on March 5 of that year.

When he received the command to smite Amalek ( 1 Samuel 15: 3 ), Saul said: For one found slain the Torah requires a sin offering 21: 1-9 ; and here so many shall be slain.

He received a script editing contract with Samuel Goldwyn Productions, but after six months of receiving no assignments, quit to work for Universal Studios, where his father was by then a star.

After a production at the Mermaid Theatre in London it was published by Samuel French Ltd in 1997 and has received several UK productions as well as productions in New Zealand and Australia.

A stage adaptation of the film by playwright Samuel Adamson received its world première at the Old Vic in London's West End on 4 September 2007.

It was during this time that Richardson received a letter from Samuel Johnson asking for money to pay for a debt that Johnson was unable to afford.

In the dream, he received a letter from his friend Samuel Loveman that read:

Parks then decided to have a post office placed in his home, so he received help from his friend, Samuel Marshall to help establish it.

Haley Williams received the Samuel French Award.

His final work, in 1975, a narrative of the epic poem, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poem that Redgrave taught as a young schoolmaster and visualized by producer-director Raul da Silva, received six international film festival prizes of which five were first place in category.

The work was well received ; in The Manchester Guardian, Samuel Langford called Bliss " far and away the cleverest writer among the English composers of our time "; The Times praised it highly ( though doubting if much was gained by the designation of the four movements as purple, red, blue and green ) and commented that the symphony confirmed Bliss's transition from youthful experimenter to serious composer.

Samuel West has received seven AudioFile Earphones Awards for his narration: The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham ( 1996 ), Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie ( 1997 ), Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks ( 1999 ), The Way I Found Her by Rose Tremain ( 2000 ), The Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst ( 2007 ), Faust by Goethe ( 2011 ) and A Shropshire Lad by A. E. Housman ( 2011 ).

He also received lessons from a Protestant pastor, Samuel Bochart.

When the brigade commander, Samuel B. M. Young, became ill, Wood received a field promotion to brigadier general of volunteers and assumed command of the 2nd Brigade, Cavalry Division, V Corps ( which included the Rough Riders ) and led the brigade to a famous victory at Kettle Hill and San Juan Heights.

Halsey received much criticism for his decisions during the battle, with naval historian Samuel Morison terming the Third Fleet run to the north " Halsey's Blunder ".

In 1793-95, the Honourable Samuel Smith, a colonel in the Queen's Rangers, received land grants of, extending from today's Kipling Avenue to Etobicoke Creek, and north to Bloor Street.

Samuel Briskman, of Brooklyn, invented pinking shears in 1931 and received patents for them in 1934.

Born at Longworth, Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ), the eldest son of Samuel Fell, who would himself be installed as Dean of Christ Church in 1638, and his wife Margaret née Wylde, he received his early education at Lord Williams's School at Thame in Oxfordshire.

In 1995 Brno received a $ 15, 000 grant to pay for preliminary research from the Samuel H. Kress European Preservation Program, part of the World Monuments Fund.

Commager and his co-author Samuel Eliot Morison received vigorous criticism from African American intellectuals and other scholars for their very popular textbook The Growth of the American Republic, first published in 1930.

When he was six, Samuel was sent to the Jewish Free School where he received a basic education.

William Lawrence, William Crowninshield Endicott, J. P. Morgan, and his father, Samuel Endicott Peabody, Peabody received pledges of $ 39, 000 for the construction of a schoolhouse, if an additional $ 40, 000 could be raised as an endowment.