It was extensively used throughout Europe and America in very early (mid 1800’s) land-line communications and has continued to be used to the present in America for this form of Land-Line telegraphic communication wherein the indicators had been carried across the land by strains (wires) supported by telegraph poles.

How I might have loved some of your codes when I was in elementary college! I even went as far as to learn Morse Code. Unfortunately, my friends refused to memorize it, so I had nobody to ship my secret Morse coded messages to. It was all fun until I acquired caught passing a coded notice in my 7th grade classroom…and the instructor figured it out! Thanks for a really enjoyable hub.

Telegraph messages had been despatched by tapping out the code for each letter within the type of long and brief signals. Quick indicators are referred to as dits (represented as dots). Lengthy signals are known as dahs (represented as dashes). The code was transformed into electrical impulses and despatched over telegraph wires. A telegraph receiver on the opposite finish of the wire converted the impulses again into to dots and dashes, and decoded the message.

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