Morse Code

Samuel f.b. Morse was on a boat coming back from Europe when he got the idea of making the machine so he found a partner to help him by the name of Alfred Vail. it took them five years to build this machine.

The land telegraph was invented by Samuel F. B. Morse, in the 1830s I think. He built this thing that when a button was pushed at one place, it could cause a clacker to go clack at the other end of a wire many miles long. In order to send information over it, he invented a code of clacks for each letter of the alphabet ... which he modestly called Morse's Code. The message sent as the first public demonstration was "What hath god wrought".

Morse code is still in use if you know where to look. Many ham radio operators around the world converse with "CW" (Morse code) on a regular basis. Listen around on a shortwave radio with "SSB/CW" capability for a little while and you'll hear lots of Morse code.

It allowed messages to be sent across the country or around the world very quickly - within a few hours. Previously messages had to be physically transported so UK to Australia could take 6 weeks or more.

it works by a magnet pulling on a string to hit a bell wich makes a ring

Morse Code Is named after the person who made it Samuel Morse

The land telegraph was invented by Samuel F. B. Morse, in the 1830s I think. He built this thing that when a button was pushed at one place, it could cause a clacker to go clack at the other end of a wire many miles long. In order to send information over it, he invented a code of clacks for each letter of the alphabet ... which he modestly called Morse's Code.

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Samuel Morse was from Charlestown,Massachusetts

Actually Morse's original code used dots, dashes, long dashes, and very long dashes. It also used 5 different lengths of gaps.

This was greatly simplified by the adoption of the International Morse code (largely developed in Germany then modified a bit by international agreements) to just dots and dashes. The number of different length gaps was also reduced to only 3.

One impact was that when the telegraph line was completed from Saint Lewis to San Francisco, the Pony Express System along the same route had to shut down as the telegraph could send a message almost instantly that took the Pony Express 10 days to carry at a tiny fraction of the cost.

dot dash is A

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There was only one meaning of the letters. CQ meant general attention in code (Securite) Adding D (CQD) indicated distress. Others meanings (seek you, drowning or come quick danger) are backronyms. Untrue, but thought up to explain how the code came to be.

This varies with the word per minute rate of the sender, the more words per minute the shorter the "dit" time.

di-di-dit dah dit di-dah-di-dit di-dah-di-dit di-dah

Roughly the same way it was used at the time the Titanic sunk a few years earlier.

The Twf-3 letter code, is a travel code for Magic Valley Regional Airport.

Thomas-Morse Aircraft ended in 1929.

Wayne Morse Farm was created in 1936.

Morse code uses short and longer impulses to spell letters which become words, which anyone listening can "read" if they know the Morse code. The other person can answer in Morse code whatever they feel like.

Morse code can be sent by sound, light, marks on a paper strip and so on.

Dot Dot Dot Dot.

dah-dah-dit