Question

What was Samuel Morse known for?

Answer 1

He was a painter who turned into an inventor

Answer 2

He invented the single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs

Answer 3

Samuel F. B. Morse was a talented painter, but is more famous as the inventor of
the land telegraph.

He built this thing that when a button was pushed at one place, it could cause a
clacker to go clack at the other end of a wire many miles long. In order to send
information over it, he invented a code of clacks for each letter of the alphabet ...
which he modestly called Morse's Code.

The message sent as the first public demonstration, from Washington to Baltimore in 1844,
was "What hath god wrought".

Answer 4

And painted these paintings

http://thumbs.media.smithsonianmag.com//filer/Samuel-Morse-Gallery-of-the-Louvre-520.jpg__600x0_q85_upscale.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Samuel_Finley_Breese_Morse_-_Samuel_F._B._Morse_Self-Portrait_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/DyingHercules.jpg