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Tue May 21

Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting

Written by Eddie King, Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering, University of South Carolina

There's still plenty of reason to know how to use this Morse telegraph key.Jason Salmon/Shutterstock.com

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human history that complex thoughts...

Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting

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