A. He often heard remarks that expressed a desire for electricity to be used for writing.
Samuel Morse
As a little boy, Samuel Morse liked to try experiments with magnets and electricity, so he often attended lectures on electricity. During these lectures, he often heard the remark,"If only electricity could be made to write!" This sentence greatly influenced Samuel's mind and resulted in him inventing something great later on.
When Morse was traveling as a young man, he met a group of men who talked about some experiments they had seen in Paris with a magnet and electricity. Morse asked them about the experiment. As they explained, he got the idea of using dots and dashes as a coded language. He took out a notebook and began to make dots and dashes, and he got more and more excited as the hours went by, and he realized he had invented a coded alphabet for sending messages from one part of the world to another! By morning, he had written out an alphabet of dots and dashes that stood for every letter and number in the English language. In the future, this came to be known as Morse code. Morse wanted to make a machine which would help him send messages using the code to different parts of the world, so he tried to get help from other inventors such as, Joseph Henry and Alfred Vail. With the help he received, Morse was able to build the first telegraph line in the United States, from Baltimore to Washington. This telegraph line helped Morse send messages from one place to another using Morse code.
Soon, the whole world began to use this innovative signaling code, and by the beginning of the 20th century, it led to the continents of the world being linked telegraphically. People found it as an advancement in communication because they were able to send quick messages, and Samuel Morse was soon called the greatest champion of the time.
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According to the passage, what caused Samuel Morse to develop the idea of inventing Morse code?
A.
He often heard remarks that expressed a desire for electricity to be used for writing.
B.
His fellow inventors gave him the idea of an advanced form of communication.
C.
His colleagues had already invented a code which they shared with him.
D.
He found a notebook with dots and dashes written in different patterns.
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