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.

When the S.S. Vestris foundered off the Virginia Capes in 1928 with the loss of 110 lives, it wasn’t for lack of a telegraph officer urgently tapping out Morse code. But the SOS came too late ...

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 ...

1840: Samuel F.B. Morse receives a U.S. patent for his dot-dash telegraphy signals, known to the world as Morse code. The code Morse devised in partnership with Alfred Vail uses a system of dots ...

Morse code, the language of the telegraph, ... The tones are sometimes called dots and dashes, or dahs and dits. The primitive technology was a precursor to the telephone, ...

Morse code is independent of pitch or spatial information of any sort—in Morse code timing is everything. There are two fundamental elements of Morse code: dots and dashes.

Over time, Morse’s invention lost technological relevance with the dawn of radio and telephones, but that special collection of dots and dashes (or “dits” and “dahs”) remained ...

I've always loved the sound of Morse code, but translating those mysterious dots and dashes into letters and numbers seemed like an insurmountable challenge. Today I discovered Morsle, a Wordle ...

On July 12, 1999, the nation’s final message in Morse code was sent out to sea from a remote Bay Area radio station. The end of an era, the room’s mood was mournful.