Fact 232: Who invented Morse code?
Fact 232: Who invented Morse code?
Morse code is a messaging system that uses dots and dashes to convey a message as electrical pulses through radio waves or as flashing lights.
Morse code was invented by an American investor Samuel Finley Breese Morse, (1791-1872) and Alfred Vail (1807-1859).
The idea for Morse code and Telegraph key (the Morse code tapper) was originally Morse's idea Alfred Vail improved the code and improved the tapper, by adding weights to it because Morse's tapper was going to work as a pendulum, both Morse and Vail worked together on the code and the Morse code tapper during the 1832 to 1844.
Originally Morse code was just going to be the alphabet A- Z however it was Vail's idea to add numbers and even Punctuation for example . _ . _ . _ is a pull stop in Morse code!
In Morse code when using a Telegraph key a shot tap is a dot and that makes the sound dit and the slightly longer tap is a dashes and the sound they make is dah!
I have actually listened in to Morse code communication on a radio with a very long Radio Ariel in the ground and I can tell you Morse code is taped out so fast that it sounds almost like a humming noise coming out of a radio, I have also used a Morse code tapper (that was not plugged in) that was in a plane at the Brooklyns car and plain museum (Uk).
