Morse code

concept · 1838 · Industrial Revolution

Encoding letters with dots and dashes.

Authors: Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Alfred Vail.

Where it is used

• Electrical telegraph — is used in. Morse encoding.
• Radio — is used in. The first radio transmissions were in Morse code.

Things built in a similar way

• Binary number system — works like. A code of two kinds of signal — dots and dashes.

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