You can easily know who I'm talking about with his last name. Samuel Morse
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was an inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.
Morse was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815 and a member to the American Philosophical Society in 1848. In 1975, Morse was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.