Spinal cord compression. Spinal cord compression develops when the spinal cord is compressed by bone fragments from a vertebral fracture, a tumor, abscess, ruptured intervertebral disc or other lesion.
Early life. Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born in Charlestown, Massachusetts, on April 27, 1791. He was the first son of Jedidiah Morse, a clergyman, and Elizabeth Breese, of New Jersey.
In 1838, at the age of 47, Samuel F.B. Morse, one of the country's leading portraitists, put aside his palette and brushes to devote all his time to developing the telegraph. While displaying his invention at an 1838 exhibition in New York, Morse transmitted 10 words per minute.