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 ...

There are still a few niches of Morse code, including, of course, the amateur radio community. Code isn’t that hard to learn, it is dead easy to make a computer send it and only moderately hard ...

Part of Morse code’s enduring appeal for hams isn’t going away soon: Its simplicity and easy detection on airwaves make it more reliable than voice communication—and allow a ham to break ...

Yet one mystery remains: STENDEC, the final enigmatic Morse-code message sent by Stardust's radio operator just before the plane went down. For more than half a century, experienced radio ...

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.

Furthermore, while it is relatively easy to imagine STENDEC being scrambled into descent in English, it is much harder in Morse code. They may be similar, but it is still hard to imagine an ...

Can you decipher their meaning – and work out the link between them? Use the morse code guide below to help! What information do we collect from this quiz? Morse code, invented by Samuel Morse ...

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...