A correspondent of the " Tribune " states that the operators of the telegraph running between Buffalo and Milwaukee, working under Morse's patent, have for some time past discontinued the practice ...

Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

Morse code is a communication system developed by ... The code was initially transmitted as electrical pulses sent along a telegraph wire, and later via radio waves, but it’s versatile in ...

Hazel Picking, who has died aged 100, was a visual signaller in the WRNS during the Second World War. As a Girl Guide, Hazel Roberts (as she was born) had been good at Morse and semaphore, and ...

He developed Morse code as a rival to Cook and Wheatstone’s telegraph. It was simple and cheap and became popular quickly. In the 1850s Morse’s single wire cable system was working all over ...

At that time, the telegraph wire was the quickest way to get messages from here to there, using Morse code. He designed a transmitter to send and a receiver to detect radio waves. By the end of ...