Happy Birthday!
Today the Morse Code turn 160 years old. Here is a link to an interesting article in WIRED Magazine on the subject.
If you would like to learn more I recommend the following book.
The Victorian Internet
Did you know that Morse visited several printers shops when devising the code to see how many lead letters were in their boxes of type and then assigned the shortest characters to the bins with the most letters in them?
And here is an tidbit from the AC6V web site.
"Several codes have been devised in the past, notably American or landline and International or Continental. American Morse was used by railroads, Western Union, and other utilities in North America. It was superceded by International Morse which was used in Europe for the trans-Atlantic cable. Because the British Marconi Company supplied most of the early shipboard operators, International Morse became the standard for radio telegraphy."
If you would like to learn more I recommend the following book.
The Victorian Internet
Did you know that Morse visited several printers shops when devising the code to see how many lead letters were in their boxes of type and then assigned the shortest characters to the bins with the most letters in them?
And here is an tidbit from the AC6V web site.
"Several codes have been devised in the past, notably American or landline and International or Continental. American Morse was used by railroads, Western Union, and other utilities in North America. It was superceded by International Morse which was used in Europe for the trans-Atlantic cable. Because the British Marconi Company supplied most of the early shipboard operators, International Morse became the standard for radio telegraphy."
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