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Primary Source Spotlight: Samuel Morse

May 24, 2016October 11, 2020

Samuel F. B. Morse's colored sketch of railway telegraph

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

  • Samuel Morse primary source set
  • Samuel Morse image set
  • Samuel Morse historic newspaper coverage

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
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