Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

The code was initially transmitted as electrical pulses sent along a telegraph wire ... it spells out “SMS”. Morse code may have been one of the first ever targets of hacking: in 1903 ...

A correspondent of the " Tribune " states that the operators of the telegraph running between Buffalo and Milwaukee, working under Morse's patent, have for some time past discontinued the practice ...

When the first transatlantic cable was ... Telegraph messages were sent in the dots and dashes of Morse Code, and someone had to sit in a telegraph office, listen to the clicks coming through ...

At that time, the telegraph wire was the quickest way to get messages from here to there, using Morse code. He designed a ... Marconi attempted to send the first radio signals across the Atlantic ...

He developed Morse code as a rival to Cook and Wheatstone’s telegraph. It was simple and ... In 1858 Queen Victoria sent the first transatlantic message to President James Buchanan.

the first honor Daguerre received outside France. Four years later, in July of 1844, news reached Paris and the rest of Europe that Professor Morse had opened a telegraph line, built with ...

Morse wasn't creating Morse code, inventing the telegraph, or painting portraits ... (Morse also had three adult children from his first marriage to Lucretia Walker, who died in 1825.) The home was ...