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Although cellphones and SMS have pretty much made Morse Code moribund - its most popular current use is probably by amateur radio operators - this is a sub-category dedicated to the dots 'n dashes of the code that was invented by Samuel F.B. Morse in 1838. Find out "What is the most famous distress signal in Morse Code?" or "How do you communicate using Morse Code?

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Who developed a code that would communicate messages using a telegraph?

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Samuel Morse invented the telegraph and the code that the telegraph used (Morse code).

What id Samuel fb Morse invent?

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Morse code. Still used today in bad communication conditions.

Why is Morse code used?

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-------------------------Advantages-----------------------------------------------------Disadvantages-------------

  • Useful if radio or other technical communicants are compromised.
  • No expensive equipment, just flags and a pair of binoculars
  • Only trained individuals can understand the message making secure.
  • It is cheap to set up the equipment needed to work it.
  • It is universally understood by operators in all countries.
  • Messages can be sent in Morse code in three basic forms; signaling involving the transmission of pressure, the transmission of light or radio waves.
  • People need to be trained to operate the equipment and to use and translate it.
  • It requires line of sight which can be hard to find in bad weathers.
  • It is time consuming to send, receive and translate the messages.
  • Morse code is slow and cumbersome compared with modern communication.
  • You cannot be 100% sure that the recipient will understand Morse code.
  • It is easily to misread the message as the difference between the length of signals identifying letters and words is very small.
  • It is slow to use compared to talking over a telephone.

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What number is represented by 5 dots in Morse code?

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The letter O is represented by dash dash dash

What did Morse code change?

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Morse code has improved communication in a lot of ways. Here are just several of the benefits of Morse code out of a whole lot of others:

  • In aviation pilots use radio navigation aids. They usually emit a short set of station identification letters in Morse code in order to ensure that the stations they're using is in good service.
  • The International Morse code is a favourite with amateur radio operators, as they can quickly key a transmitter on and off (also referred to as 'continous wave' or 'CW').
  • Morse code can be used as a signal for help (SOS).
  • Morse code has also helped many people with disabilities to communicate.

What is an example of a code often used by a teenagers?

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ohhhhhh you must be one of those people who have absoluteley no idea what so ever of what it is like being a teenager in the 21st century we do not have codes or words we use and no-one i know (except real idiots uses the word 'cool') there are no codes its just normal to us theres no codes its just normal to us not 'cool' or any other 1980's retro word just normal 1st you are prob a parent trying to figure out wat their kid says jst ask ur friends or kid then you'll know

Where was the Morse Code created?

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Morse code was developed by a man named Samuel Morse. In 1844, the first message using this special code made of various sequences of dots and dashes or short and long signals was sent over a telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington.

In 1848, the code was adapted by a man named Friedrich Gerke and his version is the one that has become internationally accepted and used.

What different types are there of Morse code?

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Three main ones:

  1. American Morse code (Morse's original, 1844)
  2. European Morse code
  3. International Morse code (replaced the previous types in 1865)

When and where was the enigma code invented?

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The Germans used the Enigma in WW2. It had a set of gears that when you pressed a letter on the keyboard, it seemed to randomly type another letter on the sheet of paper you were typing on. only if you had the same set of gears could you translate the code to English. The gears were interchangeable so you could create many different codes.

List of Morse code alphabet?

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Morse code alphabet (in international Morse code) is:

A: .-

B: -...

C: -.-.

D: -..

E: .

F: ..-.

G: --.

H: ....

I: ..

J: .---

K: -.-

L: .-..

M: --

N: -.

O: ---

P: .--.

Q: --.-

R: .-.

S: ...

T: -

U: ..-

V: ...-

W: .--

X: -..-

Y: -.--

Z: --..

What was the first Morse code message sent in 1844?

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What hath God wrought - it's a phrase from the Bible

How long Morse code take to travel from one point to another?

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From one telegraph station to another - instantly. However telegraph stations were not very far apart so the message had to be retransmitted onwards. Originally this was done manually - an operator had to listen for incoming messages, write them down and then re-key tem. Later on they used punched tape which was produced when a message was received and could be automatically retransmitted. End to end - from the sender to the recipient could take several hours or days if overseas depending on the number of "hops".

What is Morse code by mirror called?

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If there is a light source reflecting your mirror at a certain angle it is possible to send a Morse code to another person from a distance.

How did people communicate before morse code?

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The people communicated in many ways like:

  • Letter
  • Personal Messenger
  • Pigeons
  • Eagles

World's largest iron ore producers?

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in the year 2009 unctad report say that

1) Australia is the biggest iron ore producing countries in the world.

2) Brazil

3) India

4) china

When and how was the Morse code invented?

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Samuel F.B. Morse, with the assistance of Alfred Vail, invented Morse Code in 1835 when, as a professor of arts and design at New York University, he proved that signals could be transmitted by wire. Originally, Morse Code was a series of written codes on a strip of paper, but in 1836, the device used to produce the written codes was modified to emboss the paper with dots and dashes, which he modestly called Morse's Code.

The message sent as the first public demonstration was "What hath God wrought".

What year did the use of Morse code end?

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Morse Code, invented in the 1830s, uses two symbols, the dot and the dash, in sequences, to indicate letters. In 1836, Samuel Morse demonstrated the ability of a telegraph system to transmit information over wires. The information was sent as a series of electrical signals. The most well-known usage of Morse code is for sending the distress signal: SOS. In the year 1999, Morse code is being replaced by a new satellite-based system for sending distress calls at sea.

Fastest 40 meter dash?

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riley david larue(fastest man in the world) born on october 18, 1988 ran a 100 yard dash in 5.28 seconds in pauls alley way on october 5th 2009.


This guy must run a 2 second 40

How Samuel Morse telegraph works?

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It's a series of dots lines and spaces that when arranged in a certain order make out words.

What do 4 dots in Morse Code mean?

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Three dashes in Morse Code mean the letter O. 3 dots, followed by 3 dashes, followed by 3 dots is Morse Code for SOS.

Was Morse code used on the titanic?

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Ambiguous question. (1)To call for help from other ships. (2)Morse code was the standard code used for radio communication from ships at the time.

Why is Morse code called Morse code?

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Samuel FB Morse devised both the telegraph system and the code. the mode of code- that is dots and dashes was more or less discovered accidentally, the code itself was not. They used printing telegraphs which were clockwork tape registers ( this being the l840"s) and these were tied into the power supply so the shortest interval was a dot, a longer one, a dash. So, this being understood the Code was worked out. There are differences between the original Morse Code and the modern International Morse Code on some letters and punctuations. Somewhat oddly, one of the best-known Morse ciphers- the code for Red Alert: - - - - Four longs, evenly spaced- is not in the original land line (Morse) or international ( Radio-telegraph) forms of the Morse Code, but it well known. Four Longs- Red Alert! Even Spector used it in some of his songs.

What instrument was used to send messages in Morse code?

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Not generally. Morse code is used very little these days, except by the military and the Boy Scouts, or in some kind of emergency where no other form of communication is available. When Morse code was more prevalent, the device used to transmit the "dots and dashes" was known as a telegraph. A very simple electrical switch that tapped the current on and off to transmit via overland wires, and later, by radio.