Primary Source Spotlight: Samuel Morse
Background
- Samuel F.B. Morse Sent the First Telegraphic Message from America’s Library
- What Hath God Wrought? curator video about first telegram
Samuel F. B. Morse Papers at the Library of Congress 1793 to 1919 (see collection highlights below)
- Art & Travel
- Artist, Politician, Photographer
- Childhood & Family Life
- Daguerreotype
- Impact of the Telegraph
- Invention of the Telegraph
- Timeline
More primary sources
Related resources
- Today in History: First Telegraphic Message Sent
- Today in History: The Transcontinental Telegraph & the End of the Pony Express
- Learn Morse code
Teaching resources
- Electromagnetism, Electric Communication, and Community Citizen U multidisciplinary civics science lesson (elementary)
- Primary Sources in Science Classrooms: Communicating between Continents with Cables and Code Teaching with the Library of Congress blog February 24, 2016
- Primary Sources and Science TPS Quarterly Vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 2011