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On April 27th, 1791 in Charlestown, Boston, MA, Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born to the parents of Jedidiah Morse and Elizabeth Ann Finley Breese. He was a painter and inventor. After his established portrait painting career, Morse decided to contribute to the invention of the single-wire telegraph system. This unique system changed long distance communication and it was based off of European telegraph designs. He was married to Susan walker Morse and had three children. She died young, at the age of 25 while Samuel was away in Washington D.C. and the message was delivered via horse carriage. He rushed home, only to find his wife had already been buried. This launched him into his telegraph project. During his youth, the young lad attended Philips Academy in Andover, MA at age nine. Astonishingly he entered Yale College at only 14! In these years he earned income by painting magnificent portraits. He also studied subjects such as religious philosophy, mathematics, and science. At college he had the opportunity to go to lectures …show more content…

This sparked his interest on electromagnetism. After he learned that information was sent through copper cables long distance Morse started devising a plan to fix this. Upon witnessing many of Jacksons’ experiments, Samuel devised the first telegraph and sent his discoveries to the US patent office. He received help from Professor Leonard Gale who came from NYU. Thanks to Professor Gale the ability for messages to be sent 10 miles was designed. This encouraged Morse to continue lengthening the communication. With the financial support from Alfred Vail on January 11th, 1838 at the grounds of Speedwell Ironworks factory something monumental happened. Without an additional power source the first telegraphic message was transmitted and received between two miles “A patient waiter is no

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Born in Westborough, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765, he was the oldest child of Eli Whitney Sr. and Elizabeth Fay. At the age of 14, he was making nails in his father's workshop during the Revolutionary War. Later, he went on to invent the cotton gin to help decrease the need for slaves on cotton plantations. Ironically, this had completely the opposite effect, making cotton the cash crop of the South, and increasing the demand for slaves. While he was most famous for inventing the cotton gin, Whitney did not actually make any sizable profit from it, due to patent infringement.

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On September 27, 1722 in Boston, Massachusetts Samuel Adams was born to Samuel Adams Sr. and Mary Fifield Adams. His family was from a Puritan background and they lived in Boston Massachusetts. His father was a wealthy, well-respected merchant and brewer (an important vocation in this era of unclean

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GROWING UP Samuel Adams was born September 27, 1722 in Boston ,Massachusetts .He died October 2 ,1803 in Cambridge, MA. He grew up in a family house on Purchase Street, near the Boston harbor. Boston was not the city it is today during that time. He was one out of eleven children.

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Born in 1765 in Westborough, Massachusetts, Eli Whitney saved up money working as a tutor to go to Yale. When he earned a degree he found himself stranded in Georgia when a tutoring job fell through. He was fortunate enough to find a place to stay. While there he picked up that farmers in the area were having trouble with the amount of time and energy it took to separate cotton from cottonseeds. This simple problem seriously slowed down production.

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Samuel Adams was born in Boston 1722. He was the son of Samuel Adams and Mary Fifield. He had 11 siblings but sadly, only two of them lived past age three. His father was a businessman and politician, because of this he was born into a wealthy family and got the best education he could get. As a kid, Samuel was interested in politics even though his parents wanted him to be a church minister.

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He would later get married to Henrietta Edwards in 1817, and he would have four children, In 1792, he graduated from Yale College and had considered become a lawyer. He headed to the South and intended to become a private tutor, but when he was invited to stay with widow Catherine Green on her plantation, he accepted. While Whitney was on the plantation, he learned about the difficulties that the slaves and farmers faced with cotton.

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Whitney was born on December 8, 1765, in Westboro, Massachusetts. He lived a good long life (Eli Whitney). Eli Whitney has done so many things to impact the great world! As a young boy, he became skilled at being a mechanic in his father’s farm workshop. Eli Whitney.

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Samuel was born in a family of 12 children to parents who were strict Puritans and went to the Old South Congregational Church as members of the Church. Samuel’s family lived in a house on Purchase Street in Boston. Samuel (being brought up in Puritan values he was proud of them and even implied them in his political career. Samuel Adams went to Boston Latin School and he had gotten enrolled to Harvard College in 1736. Adams’ parents wanted him to become a minister, but with time Adams grew more inclined to take up politics as his choice of a career.

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Samuel Adams was born in Boston on September 27, 1722. He grew up in a wealthy home and had eleven siblings. Unfortunately, only two of them made it until their third birthdays. Both of Samuel's parents were strong puritans. His mom supported Calvinism and his dad was a deacon of the Congregational Church.

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He was the one of three surviving siblings out of a total of 12 siblings. His parents were puritans and he grew up in a religious family. His father, Samuel “Deacon” Adams was a wealthy maltster and merchant and had strong political opinions.

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On the day of February 6, 1756 in Newark, New Jersey a baby boy by the name of Aaron Burr was born. He was the second child of Reverend Aaron Burr, Sr. who was also know as the second president of the College of New Jersey which later on was known as Princeton University. HIs mother, Esther Edwards Burr, was the daughter of Jonathan Edwards, who was a philosopher and theologian. Aaron Burr had an older sister named Sarah who was two years older than him.

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Abigail Adams was born in 1744 in Weymouth, Massachusetts to William Smith and Elizabeth Smith. She was taught at home about women’s work such as domestic skills, sewing, cooking, and reading and writing. When Abigail reached the age of nineteen, she and John began exchanging letters back and forth until it couldn't last and they married. John Adams a young Harvard educated lawyer moved her out to his home in Braintree and started a family together. “Three years after being married the couple had Abigail in 1765, John in 1767, Susanna

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Samuel B. Morse later invented the telegraph in 1836. The telegraph worked by a series of dots and dashes which could be transmitted electrically. The first telegraph service opened was 8 years later between Baltimore and Washington D.C. It began to expand as well as the railroad industry did. Later that decade Alexander Graham Bell invented the

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Frederick Douglass was born in 1808, in Talbot County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore. He was the son of a slave woman, named Harriet Bailey, and perhaps her white master. His name of birth was Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey. Douglass, like every other slave, had a very difficult life. He was separated from his mother when he was only an infant.

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He was born to Esther Edwards Burr and Aaron Burr Sr. She was a writer and his father was a Presbyterian minister and founder/president of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University.) At just nineteen months of age, Burr’s father died. Within the next year, so did his mother. He and his sister went to live with their grandparents, but they died also!

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