The first message sent by Morse code's dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844-175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...

Morse code encodes a simple text into a sequence of dots, dashes/dits, and spaces. It is one of the earliest methods used to transmit messages in the form of audible or visual signals. The Morse code ...

Morse code is a method of encoding words that was invented in the 19th Century as a way of transmitting messages over long distances. This was before the era of telephones and way before smartphones!

In case you’re not a former sailor or ham radio operator, the above is not a typesetting snafu. Those are the dashes and dots (or “dits” and “dahs,” as telegraph operators often vocalize them) that ...

Hi, I look after product development for CBS Interactive in Sydney - which lets me develop a range of websites including CNET Australia, TV.com and ZDNet Australia. Eight years ago, shortly after I ...

Morse code is a communication system developed by Samuel Morse, an American inventor, in the late 1830s. The code uses a combination of short and long pulses – dots and dashes, respectively – that ...

Then-Cmdr. Jeremiah Denton was interviewed by a Japanese television reporter on May 2, 1966, as part of a propaganda campaign orchestrated by the North Vietnamese. During the interview, he blinked ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Dots and dashes darted through the airwaves long before text or instant messages, even before e-mail, cell phones or telephone lines. While these new forms of communication ...

Cynthia Evans recalls her time working at "Y station" MoD Chicksands during World War Two.

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 ...