Born April 27 1791, Samuel F. B. Morse began his career as a portrait painter. For a while he was one of the first photographers in America. Later, he contributed toward the invention of a single-wire telegraph system. He co-developed the Morse Code used in telegraph transmission. Here he is in the 1850s; in his 1812 self-portrait; Morse's portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette; an unknown young man, in the only known photograph from Morse's daguerreotype studio (1840); and Morse's first telegraph.
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