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Morse code is a telecommunications method for encoding text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations known as dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. Morse code is named after Samuel Morse, one of the telegraph's inventors.
Morse Code refers to one of two systems for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks with a series of dots, dashes, and spaces. The codes are transmitted as variable-length electrical pulses or analogous mechanical or visual signals, such as flashing lights. The original "American" Morse Code and the later International Morse Code, which became the global standard, are the two systems.
During the 1830s, American artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse invented one of the Morse code systems for electrical telegraphy in the United States. A conference of European nations devised the International Morse Code in 1851 to account for letters with diacritic marks.
Before the invention of the telegraph, most long-distance messages were carried by messengers who memorized them or carried them in writing. These messages could only be delivered at the speed of the fastest horse.
Messages could also be sent visually, using flags and, later, mechanical systems known as semaphore telegraphs, but these systems required the receiver to be close enough to see the sender and were not usable at night.
Using electricity, the telegraph enabled messages to be sent very quickly over long distances. In 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone invented the first commercial telegraph.
They created a device that could send messages by lining up compass needles on a grid containing letters of the alphabet. Then, in 1838, Samuel Morse and his assistant, Alfred Vail, demonstrated an even more successful telegraph device that used a special code - Morse code - to send messages.
Telegraph messages were transmitted by tapping out the code for each letter as long and short signals. Dits are abbreviations for short signals (represented as dots). Long signals are known as dahs (represented as dashes).
The code was converted into electrical impulses before being transmitted over telegraph wires. On the other end of the wire, a telegraph receiver decoded the message by converting the impulses back into dots and dashes.
In 1844, Morse demonstrated the telegraph to the United States Congress using a now famous message "What hath God wrought".