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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morse, Samuel Finley Breese 1791-1879 (search)
, and in New York, where, in 1824-25, he laid the foundation of the National Academy of Design, organized in 1826, of which he was the first president, and in which place he continued for sixteen years. While he was abroad the second time (1829-32), he was elected Professor of the Literature of the Arts of Design in the University of the City of New York. Previous to his leaving home he had become familiar with the subject of electromagnetism by intimate personal intercourse with Prof. James Freeman Dana. On his return passage from Europe in 1832 in the ship Sully, in conversation with others concerning recent electric and magnetic experiments in France, Professor Morse conceived the idea of an electromagnetic and chemical recording telegraph as it now exists. Before the close of that year, a part of the apparatus was constructed in New York. In 1835 he had a mile of telegraph wire, producing satisfactory results, in a room at the university, and in September, 1837, he exhibite