morse code
The Language of Sounds
Morse Code is a language that used sounds rather than words. And we have the ability to use it today using smoke signals, lights, and sounds (“Wikipedia”1). Without Morse code, the spies that stole secrets from other countries may have been seen, chased, caught, interrogated, and killed. The things in Morse Code like the dots and dashes, or the uses like the different machines they used back then, possibly even the people that created it such as the main person Samuel Morse (1) (1). All of these lay in the paper beyond.
Morse Code is made up of things called Dots and Dashes or later known as “dits” and “dahs” for short (1); dashes are three times the length of a dot and every dot or dash is followed by a space that is the same length as a dot (2). Because every character has differing lengths due to the differing number of dots and dashes the word “PARIS” and “CODEX” were used as words to measure the speed of the operators (2). Samuel Morse made a language that was able to be transmitted through electric telegraph systems that he, Alfred Vail, and Joseph Henry later created the first of later (“Instructables”27). When Samuel Morse first created it he had planned to send numerals and use a dictionary to look up the word according to the number sent (“Wikipedia”4) but this system was then expanded to each letter having a sequence of dots and dashes by Alfred Vail (4). Although for the most part Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail were the main creators there were numerous others that contributed to both the system and the machines that Morse code was generally sent by (5). The contributors that helped the most were William Cooke, Charles Wheatstone, and Joseph Henry created many different machines to assist in the successfulness of the new language (5); so that is how you “speak” Morse Code.
There are countless ways to transmit Morse code, whether you use sound, smoke signals, light, clicks; it doesn’t matter as long as it is a
Morse Code is a language that used sounds rather than words. And we have the ability to use it today using smoke signals, lights, and sounds (“Wikipedia”1). Without Morse code, the spies that stole secrets from other countries may have been seen, chased, caught, interrogated, and killed. The things in Morse Code like the dots and dashes, or the uses like the different machines they used back then, possibly even the people that created it such as the main person Samuel Morse (1) (1). All of these lay in the paper beyond.
Morse Code is made up of things called Dots and Dashes or later known as “dits” and “dahs” for short (1); dashes are three times the length of a dot and every dot or dash is followed by a space that is the same length as a dot (2). Because every character has differing lengths due to the differing number of dots and dashes the word “PARIS” and “CODEX” were used as words to measure the speed of the operators (2). Samuel Morse made a language that was able to be transmitted through electric telegraph systems that he, Alfred Vail, and Joseph Henry later created the first of later (“Instructables”27). When Samuel Morse first created it he had planned to send numerals and use a dictionary to look up the word according to the number sent (“Wikipedia”4) but this system was then expanded to each letter having a sequence of dots and dashes by Alfred Vail (4). Although for the most part Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail were the main creators there were numerous others that contributed to both the system and the machines that Morse code was generally sent by (5). The contributors that helped the most were William Cooke, Charles Wheatstone, and Joseph Henry created many different machines to assist in the successfulness of the new language (5); so that is how you “speak” Morse Code.
There are countless ways to transmit Morse code, whether you use sound, smoke signals, light, clicks; it doesn’t matter as long as it is a
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