Morse Code: Significant Invention During The Middle-19th Century

Morse code
Aidan Pease
Freshmen English/world history
Mrs. Bisenius
February 5, 2017
.... . .-.. .-.. --- / .-- --- .-. .-.. -.. Morse code was a significant invention during the middle 19th century but why was it important, who made it, how does it work, and is it still used today.

Samuel Finley Breese Morse was an American artist and inventor widely known for his invention of the single wire telegraph and co-inventor of Morse code. Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts April 27 1791. Samuel got most of his education from the Yale University of Boston. On February 1825, after giving birth to their third child, Lucretia (Samuel’s wife) passed away. Morse was on his way home from working when he heard his wife was very ill, and by the time he
The most the most used letters are given shorter sequences of dots and dashes. For example, m the most common letter used in the English language (E) is represented by a single dot. The first telegraphs made clicking sounds as they marked the moving paper. Eventually these papers became unnecessary because operators learned it as a language instead of reading of a page of paper. These codes were sent through a single wire, because radio waves were not made for another 30 years. There are multiple advantages of Morse code because it is for communication and faster than sending a letter to someone. Morse code is fairly cheap price to use only about 25 cents for 10 words or less. The system is only a single cord for communication so it doesn’t get any interference. But, when there is advantages there is disadvantages, Morse code is very time consuming to use. You would have to learn Morse code by the sound of the clicks to be better at it. Morse code was a great way for sending distress signals from boats equipped with radio waves. For example, the biggest boat, titanic, used Morse code to call for rescue ships in order to save as much as possible. Sometimes people would use it in prison to talk to another in secret. Sometimes the use it in popular shows like the walking
Soon after the telegraphs primer in Europe it became that the original Morse code was insufficient of transmissions of non-English text. To fix this Alfred Vail created the international Morse code. The two machines were very alike but however the international Morse code was simpler and more precise. For example, the original Morse code a pattern of dots and dashes to represent some of the letters. The international Morse code uses combinations of dots and dashes to represent all letters. Including, the international Morse code uses dashes of consistent length rather than variations of lengths used in the original