Breaking communication barriers

South Wales Evening Post | January 21, 2009 | Copyright

Morse code is a type of character encoding that transmits telegraphic information using rhythm through a standardised sequence of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a given message.

Originally created for Samuel Finley Breese Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, Morse code was also extensively used for early radio communication, beginning in the 1890s.

For the first half of the 20th Century, the majority of high- speed international communication was conducted in Morse code, using telegraph lines, undersea cables, and ...

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