Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the early developers of the system adopted for electrical telegraphy.
Back in the early 1800s, engineers and scientists were just starting to pioneer electrical communication methods. In 1836, Samuel Morse, Joseph Henry, and Alfred Vail invented the electrical telegraph system. It was the first system that allowed communication over great distances. However, there was a problem, – it could only communicate pulses of electricity to another machine.
This meant that you wouldn’t be able to communciate using voice or text, so a new way of getting messages across was needed.
A code was developed by none other than Samuel Morse to translate electrical pulses back into the original message.
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