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Morse Code (Morse Code was a major breakthrough when it was invented. At…
Morse Code
Morse Code was a major breakthrough when it was invented. At that time, the only way to communicate was face to face or to send someone on a horse to deliver a message. There weren't phones where you could call people and text.
Morse Code spared a lot of time. It didn't take months to send messages from New York to Japan. You just had to put your message into the telegraph in a series of dots and dashes. Then on the other side, the same symbols would appear. Instead of waiting for months to get one message, you'd wait for about a minute to get multiple messages. It saves lots of time. Also, if something is an emergency or there is something someone needs to know immediately, Instead of wasting so much time with a messenger, you can send a message in code.
With all the good things about Morse Code, there are a few cons about it.Translating it might be hard for some people. Also, there would've been lots of misconceptions when translating it, especially when it was first introduced. Also, translating may be time taking.
Morse Code, as you know it today is not how it was when it was first invented. Although most credit Samuel Morse for inventing Morse Code, Alfred Vail played a large part in the invention of Morse Code.
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Originally, Morse intended to transmit the message in a very different way. The modern Morse Code you see isn't like how Morse wanted it to be.
When Samuel Morse was on a ship, he heard someone talk about the flow of electricity.
He thought, maybe sound can travel through wires too. With that idea, he started working on Morse Code.
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Morse Code was invented in 1844 after Samuel's wife died. The news came to him days or weeks after she died. Morse wanted to create a faster way for news to travel. He created Morse Code.
When Morse Code was first invented, lots of people used it.
Military used it to communicate and tell important stuff and talk tactically. It was used in secret messages too.
It also let journalists and newspapers get and send news faster and more efficiently. It was also used on railroad lines, making it possible to know the arrival and departure times of a train.
Morse Code, simply put is a combinations of dots and dashes that form a message.
It uses short and long impulses that spell letters and become words. Any person listening can "read" the message if they know Morse Code. z
You could reply back whenever you want, kind of like texting.
Morse Code can be in sound, light, marks on paper, and so on.
At that time, they didn't have phones. In emergencies, the best option was Morse
Of course, they have to have a simple emergency signal to tell someone if there in distress.
The signal was SOS. It It was very simple in Morse Code. In Morse Code it is ... --- ...
Now that we have phones, the emergency number is 911.
Both are 3 digits, therefore very short. They both are important messages that can save someone's life. You signal for it when in distress or trouble bad situations.
Morse's original idea was to send series of numbers to represent certain letters. There would be a dictionary for translating it. That would've been very time-taking.
Alfred's changes just made life easier for anyone using Morse Code. After all, it was much more simple. If you were a beginner, you just had to look at a chart. If you memorized it. It would only take seconds to figure out the message.
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