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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...

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