“What hath God wrought?” With those words, the Information Age began. You know Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) invented the telegraph and sent that first famous message in 1844 … but did you also know that prior to that, Morse was an accomplished painter? His portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette hangs in City Hall. Byron Picket’s 1880 […]
from Forgotten New York http://forgotten-ny.com/2018/11/samuel-morse-central-park/
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