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Morse returned to painting and became a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York. He also unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York twice. He had been working on his telegraph and had even taken out a patent. Morse had a working model of the telegraph by January 1836, and improved it with the help of a colleague, Leonard Gale. In 1837, Morse formed a partnership with Alfred Vail, who contributed money and mechanical skill. They applied for a patent, and Morse went to Europe to get patents there as well.  

Morse returned to painting and became a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York. He also unsuccessfully ran for mayor of New York twice. He had been working on his telegraph and had even taken out a patent. Morse had a working model of the telegraph by January 1836, and improved it with the help of a colleague, Leonard Gale. In 1837, Morse formed a partnership with Alfred Vail, who contributed money and mechanical skill. They applied for a patent, and Morse went to Europe to get patents there as well.  

Morse’s first telegraph printed the message by printing a seismograph-like line on a thin strip of paper..<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/morse.html |title=Samuel F. B. Morse as MIT's Inventor of the Week |accessdate=2009-12-10 |work= }}</ref> The dips in the line had to be decoded using a dictionary written by Morse, but decoding was hard if the line was not clear. By the following year, he had made a telegraph that used an improved dot-and-dash system of [[Morse Code]] that impressed dots and dashes on paper. Different combinations of dots and dashes represented letters and numbers. The paper was decoded later by an operator. This system was better because it was easier to decode, and eventually trained operators could decode it in their heads. In 1838, Morse exhibited his telegraph to the public in New York.  

Morse’s first telegraph printed the message by printing a seismograph-like line on a thin strip of paper.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/morse.html |title=Samuel F. B. Morse as MIT's Inventor of the Week |accessdate=2009-12-10 |work= }}</ref> The dips in the line had to be decoded using a dictionary written by Morse, but decoding was hard if the line was not clear. By the following year, he had made a telegraph that used an improved dot-and-dash system of [[Morse Code]] that impressed dots and dashes on paper. Different combinations of dots and dashes represented letters and numbers. The paper was decoded later by an operator. This system was better because it was easier to decode, and eventually trained operators could decode it in their heads. In 1838, Morse exhibited his telegraph to the public in New York.  

In 1842, Morse got a grant from [[Congress]] for $30,000 to build and experimental [[telegraph]] between Baltimore and Washington, D. C., a distance of 40 miles. The real first message was sent on this telegraph system when the news of the [[Whig Party]]'s nomination of [[Henry Clay]] for U.S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington. This was the first news ever dispatched by electric telegraph. Morse’s first public message, sent on May 24, 1844, was from [[Numbers]] 23:23, “What hath God wrought!” ([[Numbers 23:23]]) The verse had been picked out by the daughter of one of his friends who had publicized Morse’s invention and secured funding for it.  

In 1842, Morse got a grant from [[Congress]] for $30,000 to build and experimental [[telegraph]] between Baltimore and Washington, D. C., a distance of 40 miles. The real first message was sent on this telegraph system when the news of the [[Whig Party]]'s nomination of [[Henry Clay]] for U.S. President was telegraphed from the party's convention in Baltimore to the Capitol Building in Washington. This was the first news ever dispatched by electric telegraph. Morse’s first public message, sent on May 24, 1844, was from [[Numbers]] 23:23, “What hath God wrought!” ([[Numbers 23:23]]) The verse had been picked out by the daughter of one of his friends who had publicized Morse’s invention and secured funding for it.