
The Invention of the Telegraph
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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Morse Code
Morse and vale developed a code to use the telegraph consisting of a system of dots and dashes. The international morse code, or continental morse code was devised in 18 51 by a conference of european nations. "I believe the original idea with morsecode was that it was supposed to first a be something that would be transcribed as dots and dashing on paper"
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