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Samuel Finley Breese Morse

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Inventor

The Resume

    (April 27, 1791-April 22, 1872)
    Invented the single wire telegraph (patent # 1,647 - Improvement in the mode of communicating information by signals and the application of electro-magnetism)
    Was a portrait painter
    Inducted into the National Inventors' Hall of Fame (1975)

Why he might be annoying:

    The U.S. made it mandatory to know Morse Code in order to get an amateur radio operator's license (ham radio).
    He was extremely religious.
    Although credited with inventing the telegraph it was proposed in 1753 and built in 1774, years before his birth.
    Twice he ran unsuccessfully for mayor of New York City.
    He profited from the telegraph despite using his influence to get the U.S. to provide him $30,000 (about $500,000 today's money) to 'wire' the US (1842).
    It is widely believed that Alfred Vail, Morse's assistant invented the code we call 'The Morse Code.'

Why he might not be annoying:

    He graduated Yale (1810).
    He taped the first telegraph message 'What hath God wrought?' (May 24, 1844)
    Several European countries combined to pay him 400,000 francs as compensation for use of his system (1858).
    Both coasts of the US were wired link for the telegraph (1861).
    The transatlantic cable was completed (1866).
    He popularized the Morse Code, which is still (although very limited) in use today.

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Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 4 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 15 Votes: 53.33% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 25 Votes: 52.00% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 68 Votes: 51.47% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 10 Votes: 30.0% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 22 Votes: 36.36% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 33 Votes: 42.42% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 40 Votes: 45.00% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 88 Votes: 48.86% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 118 Votes: 47.46% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 224 Votes: 42.41% Annoying
    In 2004, Out of 314 Votes: 44.90% Annoying
    In 2003, Out of 625 Votes: 43.20% Annoying
    In 2002, Out of 1595 Votes: 41.44% Annoying
    In 2001, Out of 4612 Votes: 53.25% Annoying