In particular, a Poughkeepsie-based non-profit group called Celebrating the African Spirit brought a formal petition to the board to change the name of Samuel F.B. Morse Elementary School.

At the Poughkeepsie City School District Board of Education meeting Wednesday, the board discussed survey results from the proposed renaming of three district buildings: the Samuel F.B. Morse and Gov.

March: American Samuel F. B. Morse, in Paris to promote his telegraph, meets with Daguerre and returns to New York to teach the process. Among his pupils is noted photographer Matthew Brady.

Jan. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1838, in Morristown, N.J., Samuel F.B. Morse and his partner, Alfred Vail, publicly demonstrated their new invention, the ...

The U.S. government has regulated the telecommunications sector for decades, though it took some time to catch up after Samuel F.B. Morse first demonstrated the telegraph in 1837, then later ...