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In 1837, Samuel Morse had his first demonstration about the telegraph. He strung ten miles of wire around his classroom. He hoped that rich people would invest in it. But no one did.
There were not many people that seemed interested in the telegraph except Alfred Vail and Leonardo D. Gale. They soon became partners of Samuel Morse. The three partners improved it. The new version of the telegraph had a metal rod to send the message.
Morse went to France and England and the people there didn't care about it. He also asked the U.S Congress for money to test the telegraph.
Finally, in 1842, Samuel ran an announcement in New York newspapers that invited people to see how the telegraph works. People didn't accept it very well. They still thought it wouldn't work. He hired a man to row him across the New York Harbor to lay the wire. There were two telegraphs on opposite sides of the harbor. He hooked up everything and tested it. In the morning, fishermen cut the cable and the demonstration was canceled. This didn't stop him from trying though.
It took many years until the Congress had approved Morse's invention. In 1844, a friend of Samuel Morse came to tell him that the Congress had approved of the telegraph on the last day. Morse and his partners had two months to lay the telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. All the partners arugued. One of the partners messed up on insulating the wires. In May, after hard work, Samuel tapped the message that his friend had chose in Morse code. It was received in Baltimore. Now, people invested in the telegraph and Morse got lots of money from that.
In April 1872, Samuel Morse died. The government made a statue of him to let everyone know that he was the person that made communicating much faster. From being a patient painter, an invention was made. As a child, Morse was inpatient and couldn't seem to finish a task. As an adult, he was patient and hardworking. If he were alive today, he probably would invent a faster way to send messages.
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