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Morse Code
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Telograph
In 1836, Samuel F. B. Morse, along with Joseph Henry and Alfred Vail, invented an electrical telegraph system. It could send messages over long distances by using pulses of electricity to signal a machine to make marks on paper. A code was needed to translate these marks in to a readable language. This was the start of Morse code. -
First test
The first successful public test of the telegraph in the United States took place on January 24, 1837 on Washington Square. Samuel Morse ran a copper wire from a laboratory window in a park-side tower of the main NYU building, down around a tree and back through the window. -
In The News!
Samuel announced his invention to the news on January sixth 1838. Although people didn’t think it worked and did not invest in his company. He announced his accomplishment to the New York paper. -
Mores' first telograph message
In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message using Morse code, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. The message he sent was “What has God wrought”. By 1866, a telegraph line had been laid across the Atlantic Ocean from the U.S. to Europe. The telegraph worked by sending electrical signals over a wire that laid between point A and point B. The telegraph had fallen out of popular use by the beginning of the 21st century. It was later replaced by the telephone, and Internet. -
Troubles
Morse expected to kick back, relax and enjoy the benefits of years of hard work. That’s not quite how it worked out. Many governments (including for a time the United States) ignored his claim to be the only inventor of the telegraph. Morse took his case to the Supreme Court. -
Telograph lines to Europe!!
A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean. The first communications happened on August 16, 1858, reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days to a matter of minutes. The transatlantic telegraph cable helped people living in Europe to communicate with people living in America. -
Early Telephone
The telephone was a form of the telegraph which used Morse code. The telephone revolutionized communication over long distances. The telephone was first made in the 1870s by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell. -
World War I
Morrse code was especially useful in World War l because it could be used to help soldiers communicate with each other without using people to deliver written messages back-and-forth across the battlefield. -
World War II
In WWII mores code was used for soldiers to communicate as well as to send coded messages. There was even one story that a United States soldier that a POW (prisoner of war) was being tortured and he continually was blinking and spelling out T-O-R-T-U-R-E in mores code letting the U.S know that all U.S POW’s were being tortured in that camp. -
How We Use Morse Code Today
Today, we all have some form Morse code. IPods, IPads, cell phones, and computers are all examples. No mater were you live or who you are, you are probably surrounded by more Morse code than you thought. Every electronic system or device used to communicate is using Morse code.
