Wednesday, 28 November 2012

The Telegraph + Morse Code





The Telegraph:

This invention uses electricity to transmit messages faster than they could be physically carried, over huge distances.

While a professor of arts and design at New York University in 1835, Samuel Morse proved that signals could be transmitted by wire.

He used pulses of current to deflect an electromagnet, which moved a marker to produce written codes on a strip of paper.

He then invented a code that is used to communicate every letter of the alphabet through dashes and dots: Morse Code.

This was a revolutionary advance in communications technology because it created the “wired world”.

It’s main limitation was that it needed an operator to translate the Morse Code back into English.


In your portfolio, write your name in Morse Code.





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