Samuel Finley Breese Morse ( April 27 , 1791 - April 2 , 1872 ) was an American painter who turned inventor .
Samuel Finley Breese Morse ( April 27 , 1791 - April 2 , 1872 ) was an American inventor .
The Sibley-Monroe checklist was a landmark document in the study of birds conducted by Charles Sibley and Burt Monroe during the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s .