American painter and inventor. A portraitist whose subjects included Lafayette, he refined (1838) and patented (1854) the telegraph and developed the telegraphic code that bears his name. Mary Morse Baker Morse code Morse Carlton E. Morse Samuel Finley Breese
{i} family name; Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), inventor and developer of the first successful telegraph; code language made of dots and dashes transmitted over wires by radio waves, Morse code; town in Saskatchewan (Canada); large buckle on the ceremonial robe worn by a priest