age, he became a philanthropist. He gave generously to Vassar College, where he was a founder and a trustee, his Alma Mater, Yale College, churches, theological seminaries, bible societies, mission societies, temperance societies and to poor artists. He also founded the National Academy of Design, which increased respect for painters. I think that by inventing the electric telegraph and the system of Morse Code, he helped other inventors to later invent the telephone, the radio and the television. Samuel Finley Breese Morse died on April 2, 1872 in New York City at the age of 81....
