With over 160 years of history under its belt, Morse code is by far the oldest digital signaling system known to man. Originally developed for telegraph systems, [Samuel Morse’s] code has been ...

Since then, the way we communicate has evolved in leaps and bounds to the point where the device we (sometimes) use for phone ...

It was “What hath God wrought,” the very same quote that Samuel Morse had used for the world’s first long-distance telegraph transmission back in 1844. Here’s the story of how Morse chose ...

Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

American inventor Samuel Morse transmitted the first long-distance telegraph from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore: “What hath ...

Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

Inventor Samuel Morse places a wire across New York harbor ... leading Congress to appropriate $30,000 towards construction of a telegraph line. Portuguese engineer Jose d'Almeida describes ...

The U.S. government has regulated the telecommunications sector for decades, though it took some time to catch up after Samuel F.B. Morse first demonstrated the telegraph in 1837, then later ...