When the S.S. Vestris foundered off the Virginia Capes in 1928 with the loss of 110 lives, it wasn’t for lack of a telegraph officer urgently tapping out Morse code. But the SOS came too late ...

Samuel F.B. Morse patented an electric telegraph machine on June 20th 1840. In 1844, he gave a public demonstration of the telegraph by sending four words (“What hath God wrought?”) from the U ...

Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur ...

In the late 19th century, Guglielmo Marconi invented radio-telegraph equipment, which could send Morse code over radio waves, rather than wires. The shipping industry loved this new way to communicate ...

Stoops left in 1996 as the United States began to phase out the use of Morse code for commercial messages in favor of the satellite-based Global Maritime Distress and Safety System.

Morse code, the language of the telegraph, ... Morse code was the main language of Western Union for decades, until a new technology -- the teleprinter -- replaced the telegraph system in the 1920s.

He built a USB Morse code keyboard with the same type of telegraph key the pros use. For his project, [Hudson] got his hands on a wonderful iambic paddle that is usually hooked up to CW rigs.

Unlike Samuel Morse's one-key telegraph, Baudot's used five keys. Wikimedia Commons. Famously, the first long-distance message Samuel Morse sent on the telegraph was “What hath God wrought?” ...

In 1843, Congress appropriated $30,000, about $7.7 million in today’s dollars, to underwrite an experimental 38-mile telegraph line between Washington and Baltimore, to be strung on poles along ...