When someone says Morse code, it is natural for some to think of spy movies where they used Morse code for communication. Well, it is an important innovation in communication; after all, it is the ...

Symbols with different lengths are combined to represent letters and numbersMorse codeIs designed so that the most frequently used letters are represented by the shortest code. Therefore, as long as ...

On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse tapped out “What hath God wrought” in the world’s first telegraph message. Here is a quiz on what is more famously known as the Morse Code.

The term SOS is one of the most well-known distress signals used around the world. You might have seen it in movies, on ships ...

What’s the worst thing about traditional Morse keyers? If you ask us, it’s the fact that you have to learn how to do two distinct things with one hand, and switch between them quite quickly and often.

The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named Aeneas Tacticus.

If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has an ancient specimen of the ...