Morse code lovers and navy trainers help skill live on in a world of digital technology

Even as digital technology continues to evolve, "Morsecodians" aim to preserve a once-essential way to communicate across the ...
Tribune-Star

Bruce’s History Lessons: Morse’s telegraph and its impact as a ‘game changer’

This week (May 24) in 1844, Professor Samuel F.B. Morse sat in the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., surrounded by members of Congress, who had come to witness history. Morse complied, ...
The Nation

Morse and the Telegraph

The great portrait painter and inventor who will forever be memorialized in a series of dots and dashes. Frank Jewett Mather Jr. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to ...
The Daily Progress

Code of honor: Father and son bring accurate telegraph history to 'Lincoln'

Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, are credited with inventing the electric telegraph, but they were helped by the ideas of others. When Morse sent the first official telegraph message from ...
Hackaday

Telegraph Key Makes For A Fantastic Twitter Input

In the interests of interface archaeology, [Martin] sent in the Tworse Key, a telegraph key that posts to Twitter using Morse code. It’s a fantastic build that nearly looks like something out of the ...
The Baltimore Sun

Samuel F.B. Morse gave the first public telegraph demonstration 178 years ago in Baltimore. The federal government was less than impressed.

A neglected anniversary of sorts came and went May 24; it was the first public demonstration of Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph 178 years ago at B&O Mount Clare Station, today the home of the Baltimore ...
The New York Times

Did Morse Invent the Telegraph?

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...