[ARC5] Alfred Vail - the true inventor of 'Morse' code

[Jim Haynes]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2025, Tom Lee wrote:
>
> It doesn't help Morse's case that he spent much of the rest of his life 
> trying to get Congress to appropriate funds to fight the certain invasion of 
> the US by Vatican forces. A bit of a nutter Morse was.
>
Well he was an artist and we tend to stereotype artists as a bit nutty.

Somewhere I read a hint that Morse may have been bipolar.  It was said
that some days he coouldn't be got out of bed, and others he couldn't
sit still.