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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0834120.html A hero is someone who helps people and does something people will never forget.

1) My 19th Century Hero is Samuel Finely Breese Morse. Samuel worked in the war effort to create weapons for the United States of America. He worked with Samuel Colt to create electrical water detonators which destroy ships that pass over them. He fits my definition of being a hero because he helped our whole country and he will never be forgotten.

2) Samuel Morse lived from 1791–1872. He was born in Charleston, Mass. He then graduated form Yale in 1810. He studied the subject art in England and then returned to the U.S.A. to study electricity. He first studied out of interest but then learned of the war and he wanted to help but not join up.

3) Samuel Finely Breese Morse is a hero because people look up to him as a model. A lot of new scientists these days need a model or someone to look up to. Samuel Finely Breese Morse was always a talented child. He painted for the majority of his life. He became extremely interested in electricity in his college days. Where he invented morse code for ships.

He is a hero because without his invention most ships and submarines would crash. When the titanic was sinking the captain sent out electrical signals which are referred to morse code. That is the only reason that small amount of passengers survived. Without Morse Code ships are unable to communicate due to bad weather and harsh conditions. In a fog, ships would crash without communication.

4) Samuel F.B. Morse's legacy lives on today. Not many people remember him for who he was. They remember him for what he did for society. everyone knows about his inventions and how they helped our country. I always knew about morse code but I never knew who invented it.

5) For todays youth Samuel Morse would say something along the lines of "Practice what you love to do, and you will succeed." He would say this because whatever he was doing he wasn't forced. He started to paint during college because he loved to draw when he was little. Throughout the time he was participating in a painting school in England he was thinking of electricity. Within 2 months he was back in America and studying with a chemists named Leonard Gale, physicist Joseph Henry, and machinist Alfred Vail to perfect his own version of the electric telegraph. He practiced and practiced and he created his invention.