Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

Before there were cell phones, before there was email, and before there were telephones, people were able to communicate over long distances. Instead of walking around looking at a device for much ...

The U.S. government has regulated the telecommunications sector for decades, though it took some time to catch up after Samuel F.B. Morse first demonstrated the telegraph in 1837, then later ...

From Johannes Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press in 1450 to Samuel Morse’s telegraph in 1837, each technological leap has redefined how information is produced, distributed ...

Michael Mosley, Cassie Newland and Mark Miodownik describe the scientific achievements of Samuel Morse. He developed Morse code as a rival to Cook and Wheatstone’s telegraph. It was simple and ...

Morse code is a communication system developed by Samuel Morse, an American inventor ... transmitted as electrical pulses sent along a telegraph wire, and later via radio waves, but it’s ...