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Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment. It is named for Samuel F. B. Morse, an inventor of the telegraph. The International Morse Code encodes the ISO basic Latin alphabet, some extra Latin letters, the Arabic numerals and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals (prosigns) as standardized sequences of short and long signals called “dots” and “dashes”, or “dits” and “dahs”, as in amateur radio practice. Because many non-English natural languages use more than the 26 Roman letters, extensions to the Morse alphabet exist for those languages.
Here are some interesting facts about Morse code:
- Until this present day, Morse code is still used for communication. If you are in a scout, you will learn this Morse code.
- While at Yale Samuel studied horse anatomy, mathematics, and religious philosophy.
- The inability to communicate over long distances in a short period of time inspired Samuel to begin work on an invention that would make fast communication possible – the single-wire telegraph.
- The first message of Morse code was sent on 24 May 1844 in the distance of 40 miles. The end of the first message point was in Washington and Baltimore. The content of this message was “What hath God Wrought”
- Samuel Morse was not recognized as the inventor of the telegraph until 1848, a year after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that he was in fact the inventor of the telegraph.
- Samuel Morse died April 2nd, 1872, at the age of 80, from pneumonia.
- Andrei Bindasov from Belarus got the record of the fastest Morse code speed. He transmitted 216 Morse code for one minute on 6 May 2003. It contained mixed text.