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Handout
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Samuel Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
Contrary to myth, Samuel Morse did not invent the telegraph, but he made key improvements to its design, and his work to deploy it would transform communications worldwide.
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Handout
National Inventors Hall of Fame

National Inventors Hall of Fame: Samuel F. B. Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
This is an Inventors Hall of Fame website on Samuel F.B. Morse. Includes a short biography and portrait.
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Handout
Other

Samuel Finley Breeze Morse

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides biographical information on Samuel Morse as well as information on his invention of the telegraph. (Pictures no longer load.)
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Article
University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1393: Inventing the Telegraph

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the history of the telegraph in this article, which is a transcript of a radio broadcast.
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Handout
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...
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Website
Library of Congress

Loc: A Historic Message

For Students 9th - 10th
This site, which is provided for by the Library of Congress, gives information on the first telegraph invented and the first message ever transmitted.
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Website
South Carolina Educational Television

Kids Work!: History of Telecommunications

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth look at inventions and developments that had an impact on telecommunication.