: either of two codes consisting of variously spaced dots and dashes or long and short sounds used for transmitting messages by audible or visual signals
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In response, Germans seized upon a new technology with the potential to undermine the entire nineteenth-century international communications system of submarine cables and news agencies: wireless telegraphy, which sent electrical impulses through the air to convey information in Morse code.
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Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2019
In one experiment with sensors attached to index fingers, a volunteer was able to send messages using Morse code, with a bent finger representing a dash and a straight finger a dot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
First used to send messages over land in 1844, Morse code outlived the telegraph age by becoming the lingua franca of the sea.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2024
But neither Earhart nor Noonan knew Morse code, so there was no two-way contact, according to the Smithsonian Institute’s analysis of government records.
—USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
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Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2019
In one experiment with sensors attached to index fingers, a volunteer was able to send messages using Morse code, with a bent finger representing a dash and a straight finger a dot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
First used to send messages over land in 1844, Morse code outlived the telegraph age by becoming the lingua franca of the sea.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 2 Mar. 2024
But neither Earhart nor Noonan knew Morse code, so there was no two-way contact, according to the Smithsonian Institute’s analysis of government records.
—USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
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Morse code
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: either of two codes consisting of dots and dashes or long and short sounds used for sending messages
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