Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American contributor to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs, co-inventor of the Morse code, and an accomplished painter. In 1825, the city of New York commissioned Morse for $1,000 to paint a portrait of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, in Washington. In the midst of painting, a horse messenger delivered a letter from his father that read one line, "Your dear wife is convalescent". Morse immediately left Washington for his home at New Haven, leaving the portrait of Lafayette unfinished. By the time he arrived she had already been buried.[6] Heartbroken in the knowledge that for days he was unaware of his wife's failing health and her lonely death, he moved on from painting to pursue a means of rapid long distance communication (source: wikipedia.org)
Inventors 1750 - 1799 (birth dates)
Samuel Morey
(1762-1843)
American
internal combustion engine
Joseph Constantine Carpue
(1764-1846)
French
rhinoplastic surgery
Eli Whitney
(1765-1825)
American
the cotton gin
John Dalton
(1766-1844)
British
atomic theory
Richard Hall Gower
(1768-1833)
British
ship's hull and rigging
George Cayley
(1773-1857)
British
tension-spoke wheels / Caterpillar track
John Howard Kyan
(1774-1850]
Irish
The process of Kyanization used for wood preservation
Humphry Davy
(1778-1829)
British
Davy miners lamp
Charles Derosne
(1780-1846)
French
phosphorus match - discovery of morphine in opium
Aeneas Coffey
(1780-1852)
Irish
heat exchanger - inventor of the Coffey still
Karl Drais
(1785-1851)
German
dandy horse (Draisine)
Edmund Davy
(1785-1857)
Irish
acetylene
Augustin-Jean Fresnel
(1788-1827)
French
Fresnel lens
Gustaf Erik Pasch
(1788-1862)
Swedish
the safety match
Augustus Siebe
(1788-1872)
Saxony&British
Inventor of the standard diving dress
Neil Arnott
(1788-1874)
British
the waterbed
Reverend Dr Robert Stirling
(1790-1878)
Scottish
Inventor of the Stirling engine
Samuel Morse
(1791-1872)
American
telegraph
Josef Ressel
(1793-1857)
Czech
ship propeller
Joseph Bienaime Caventou
(1795-1877)
French
caffeine - chlorophyll - strychnine
Joseph Henry
(1797-1898)
American
electromagnetic relay
John Stringfellow
(1799-1883)
British
airplane