Samuel F.B. Morse Statue, Central Park, NYC
Across Olmsted and Vaux Way in Central Park, just inside the East 72nd Street entrance, you'll also find this statue of one of America's greatest inventors: Samuel Finley Breese Morse, who invented the telegraph and revolutionized communications forever.
The first telegraph line was set up between Batlimore and Washington, D.C. as a demonstration in May 1844. The first message sent reported Henry Clay's nomination as the Whig party's presidential candidate. Later that month, Morse sent his famous message: "What hath God wrought!" Morse, also a painter, devised with Alfred Vail the telegraph code that bears his name.
Samuel F.B. Morse Statue, Central Park, NYC
Across Olmsted and Vaux Way in Central Park, just inside the East 72nd Street entrance, you'll also find this statue of one of America's greatest inventors: Samuel Finley Breese Morse, who invented the telegraph and revolutionized communications forever.
The first telegraph line was set up between Batlimore and Washington, D.C. as a demonstration in May 1844. The first message sent reported Henry Clay's nomination as the Whig party's presidential candidate. Later that month, Morse sent his famous message: "What hath God wrought!" Morse, also a painter, devised with Alfred Vail the telegraph code that bears his name.