Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American artist and inventor Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'The Girl Golfer'

'The Girl Golfer'

'The Greek Patriarch'

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and therefore great things were expected of him

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Samuel Morse (1791-1872), American artist and inventor Size:Standard: 6 x 4in 'The Girl Golfer'Samuel Morse (1791 1872), American artist and inventor, 1926. Morse was the inventor of the first functional electric telegraph (1835) and, with Alexander Bain (1810 1977), of the Morse code. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 4: Christianity and Modern Thought, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).