Morse Code

The emergency code "SOS" was chosen not because it means anything, but because its Morse Code is very simple to remember and transmit: dot dot dot dash dash dash dot dot dot. This combination of letters was established in 1906 by the International Radiotelegraphic Convention in Berlin. It is still used as an international distress signal, especially by ships and aircraft. Many people have made up acronyms for SOS, such as "Save Our Souls," "Save Our Ship", "Sink Or Swim", "Send Out Sailors", "Save Our Skins", and "Send Out Someone", but these were invented after the fact. SOS is also the theme of the Song "Message in a Bottle" by The Police.

It allowed people to communicate easier. It didn't always need electricity and didn't need expensive transmitters and receivers People who are blind could hear because it beeped dots and dashes when the message came.

Morse Code provides a letter-based method of communication by means of any type of signal that can be switched on and off ... light, sound, etc. As such, it can accomodate messages in any language that uses the familiar Roman (English) alphabet. While using the simplest possible transmitting and receiving equipment, it is highly immune to noise, and can succeed over very noisy 'channels'.

The acquisition of an ability in Morse Code is a significant accomplishment for most people, just as any other representational language. Animals don't use it.

In today's digital age, it's very hard to imagine a time when communication could be very slow. However, that was the case at the time the Morse code was developed (1836). It allowed people to use the code to send messages via telegraph that would have taken days, weeks or months to send,

Samuel Morse invented the telegraph and also the Morse code.

Can't tell from the dots and dashes. Where are the dividing points? Dot dot is an I Dash Dash is an M Dot dot dot dot is an H Dash dash dash dash isn't used in the US, but chould be CH Depending on where things break, it could be a lot of different words!

Goodbye in Morse code is (--. --- --- -.. -... -.-- .).

As you know, Morse Code is a series of short sounds and long sounds. A "dash" sound is three times longer than a "dot" sound.

The dots and dashes of each letter are "spaced" apart the same length of time that a "dot" sound is sent.

Each letter is sent, then there is a length of time, which is the same length of time that the "dash" sound is sent.

so for example if you were sending the standard distress signal of SOS, here is how it breaks down:

The letter S = three dots

The letter O = three dashes

So then SOS is sent like this:

S = dot dot dot (then wait a little..)

O = dash dash dash (then wait a little..)

S = dot dot dot (then wait a little..)

Dash dash in (international) Morse code is M

M: --

International Morse ' V ' : . . . _

SOS originally didn't stand for anything. It was just an easy-to-remember distress code. It later became associated with several sayings:

* Save Our Seamen * Save Our Ship * Save Our Souls * Ship Out of Service

* Survivors On Shore

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

Samuel Morse was married to Lucretia Pickering Walker. He was away when his wife died, and was sad he did not know. He then was angry that he did not know. After which he continued to further long distance communication.

International Morse ' Q ' : _ _ . _

HOW THEY MADE A MORSE CODE MACHINE

Samuel F.B. Morse and Alfred Vail developed an electric telegraph which sent pulses of electrical current to control an electromagnet that was located at the receiving end of the telegraph wire.

Really nothing has, it is still in use today. The telephone, telex, fax, e-mail, SMS texting, instant messaging, Facebook....

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.