Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York's Hudson Valley. The 14,000-square-foot Italianate villa, built in 1852, has 45 rooms over six floors. It was ...

Morse code emerged during a time of tinkering, at the start of the electrical age. In the 1830s, Samuel F.B. Morse, who had made a national name for himself as a painter with portraits of such ...

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 ...

If you want to learn Morse code and you don’t have a teacher ... One went to a “signal plate” made of brass or tin. This plate sat on a baseboard and above the plate were strips of wood.

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 ...

Now Morse code is used largely in airplane navigational systems for identification purposes, says Paul F. Johnston, curator of maritime history at the National Museum of American History.

He developed Morse code as a rival to Cook and Wheatstone’s telegraph. It was simple and cheap and became popular quickly. In the 1850s Morse’s single wire cable system was working all over ...

Today, even those without training can use software to decipher the contents of a message sent using Morse code. However, any message can be made secure by encrypting it before sending it ...

On August 2, 1947, Stardust's radio operator sent a final message in Morse code to the Chilean radio ... heard from the aircraft and no contact was made with the control tower at Santiago.

In this activity campers use their light bulb circuit to send a message in Morse Code. Morse Code is made up of a series of clicks that represent letters and numbers. It is written in dots and dashes.

Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York. The 14,000-square-foot villa has 45 rooms ...