Samuel F.B. Morse patented an electric telegraph machine on June 20th 1840. In 1844, he gave a public demonstration of the telegraph by sending four words (“What hath God wrought?”) from the U ...

If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has an ancient specimen of ...

The first public demonstration of the electric telegraph, which uses Morse code, was done on Jan. 11, 1838, by inventors Samuel Breese Morse and Alfred Vail. Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day ...

Morse Code often identifies two-way radio stations used by taxi drivers, police officers and firefighters. The code usually beeps automatically and so quickly that no one pays attention to it.

Morse code is nearly 200 years old and can be used to quickly transmit messages locally or around the world, although there are better systems in use today.

Contrary to what some may think, the road was not named after Samuel Morse, the American inventor who contributed to the creation of the single-wire telegraph and subsequently, the Morse Code system.

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...