Summary: Amy Henderson, historian at NPG, discusses Samuel F. B. Morse and the painting "Men of Progress" by artist Christian Schussele. Recorded at NPG, November 15, 2012. Men of Progress / Christian Schussele / Oil on canvas, 1862 / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; transfer from the National Gallery of Art; gift of the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, 1942 . Samuel Morse's Telegraph Patent Model, Patent #28159 / Inventor: Samuel Finley Breese Morse / Artist: Unidentified Maker / Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History, Behring Center; Division of the History of Technology (Electricity)
