Morse Code was first devised in the 1830s for use with the telegraph. It later became an essential part of civilian, maritime and military radio communications.

Other Morse messages Perhaps the most notable modern use of Morse code was by Navy pilot Jeremiah Denton, while he was a prisoner of war in Vietnam. In 1966, about one year into a nearly eight-year ...

Morse code is nearly 200 years old and can be used to quickly transmit messages locally or around the world, although there are better systems in use today.

Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur station ...

In the modern world of smartphones and lightning fast internet, amateur (ham) radio operators still enjoy communicating over the radio by tapping telegraph keys just like the pioneers did in the ...

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...

First developed in the 1830s by Samuel Morse, Morse code served as a de facto global messaging method for over 110 years. One of the reasons Morse code remained in use for so long was the ...

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An elderly couple in Tennessee briefly escaped from a secure memory care unit at an assisted living facility earlier this year after cracking the code for the electronic door, according to a ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Deputies with the Pierce County Sheriff's Department (PCSD) used one of the rarest forms of communication to reach an elderly man who had fallen and was stranded inside his home ...