The telegraph stands as one of the most groundbreaking inventions in human history. Before its arrival, communication was painfully slow, relying on messengers, letters, or physical travel. The ...

Using it still requires you to have a decent grasp on Samuel Morse’s now nearly 200 year old encoding scheme of course, but on the bright side, this clock is sure to help keep your CW skills sharp.

Christie’s announced The Maillet Daguerreotype Collection. The online sale will be open for bidding 12–26 June, and on view in Christie’s Rockefeller Center galleries from 21–26 June.

Samuel Morse consolidated Louvre masterpieces in an imaginary gallery. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre / Macbeth Gallery Records, Archives of American Art, SI; Terra Foundation for American Art ...

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 ...

E is the shortest character and the most common in English texts. You might think [Samuel Morse] was responsible for this, but his original code was only numbers. The idea is you would get numbers ...

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 ...

Most of downtown Denver is actually less than a mile high. Samuel F.B. Morse’s system of dots and dashes was revolutionary in the 1840s (Morse, a portrait painter, became interested in speeding ...