He was quite a repulsive character

From Why pure inventions don't exist by Tim Hunkin, a book review.

The book takes the form of a series of case studies: telegraphy, hydroelectric power, powered flight, electricity generation, oil refining, pre-stressed concrete, vaccines, the greenhouse effect, and atomic power. It looks at the history and development of each one, and at the science and technology behind it.

They are all good stories, both epic and bizarre. For example, the inventor of telegraphy’s Morse code, Samuel Morse, was not only an inventor, but also a successful painter and politician. He was quite a repulsive character, claiming credit for many other inventors’ contributions to the telegraph, writing polemics against the Irish, Catholics and foreigners, and presiding over a pro-slavery society.

There is a modern inclination among postmodernists to reject anything that is less than pure by postmodernist ideological standards, illustrated by the increasingly popular, and ironic, inclination of universities to remove references to anyone not passing muster: George Washington and Abraham Lincoln being recent victims of the power towards self-amnesia by ignorant anarcho-Marxists who scare the living daylights out of milquetoast university administrators.

I did not realize there was this reprehensible side to Morse. I cannot see anyone giving up the technology stemming from his retrograde character. Anarco-Marxists may be fools but they don't want to be cavemen.