2665: Morse Code: The Basics Apr 4, 2022

Morse code, conceptually, does not sound particularly revolutionary, and realistically it was not. It encodes all 26 Latin letters and numerals as a combination of 1-4 dots and dashed, with the latter being three-times the length of the former so technically there is no specified time for each so long as the proportions are consistent. This makes it easy to encode and possible to signal using theoretically any perceptible medium, though usually on things like electric currents, or radio, sound or light waves. Samuel Morse designed his code such that the most common letters are the quickest to type. Before Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail developed their system, there were a few machines that were not used on such a global scale.