Morse code, the language of the telegraph, ... Morse code was the main language of Western Union for decades, until a new technology -- the teleprinter -- replaced the telegraph system in the 1920s.

He built a USB Morse code keyboard with the same type of telegraph key the pros use. For his project, [Hudson] got his hands on a wonderful iambic paddle that is usually hooked up to CW rigs.

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.

In 1853, the Supreme Court gave Samuel Morse some bad news. In O'Reilly v. Morse, the justices approved the inventor's patent for part of the telegraph that delivered the Morse code message "What ...

Written as dots, dashes and spaces, the first Morse code message was sent in 1844 over a newly constructed telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C. In World War II, Morse code was sent ...

Morse himself, in his young manhood, had invented, as preliminaries to the telegraph, a pump, a fire engine, and a machine for mechanically reproducing sculpture.

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...

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 ...

First used to send messages over land in 1844, Morse code outlived the telegraph age by becoming the lingua franca of the sea. But by the late 20th century, satellite radio was turning it into a ...