Even as digital technology continues to evolve, "Morsecodians" aim to preserve a once-essential way to communicate across the ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a century, lives and the world were affected by messages sent and received via a series of formalized “dits” and “dahs” known as Morse code. The tones are created by a ...

This week (May 24) in 1844, Professor Samuel F.B. Morse sat in the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., surrounded by members of Congress, who had come to witness history. Morse complied, ...

Thanks to Samuel F.B. Morse, communication changed rapidly, and has been changing ever faster since. He invented the electric telegraph in 1832. It took six more years for him to standardize a code ...

Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, are credited with inventing the electric telegraph, but they were helped by the ideas of others. When Morse sent the first official telegraph message from ...

“Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.” With that, in January 1997, the French coast guard transmitted its final message in Morse code. Ships in distress had radioed out dits ...

LATE one June afternoon in 1903 a hush fell across an expectant audience in the Royal Institution's celebrated lecture theatre in London. Before the crowd, the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was ...

A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...

The Milwaukee-Madison chapter of the Morse Telegraph Club celebrated the 227birthday of Samuel F. B. Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, on April 27, at Spring Brook Golf Club in the Dells. The ...