There's a certain allure to being fluent in languages or codes. John Larsen is a retired health administrator with fond memories of working as a... Oct 07, 2010 — There's a certain allure to being ...

A character code invented by Samuel Morse that is represented by the duration of a single tone. Written as dots, dashes and spaces, the first Morse code message was sent in 1844 over a newly ...

Even as digital technology continues to evolve, "Morsecodians" aim to preserve a once-essential way to communicate across the ...

It may be the ultimate SOS--Morse Code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...

Though it's been a hundred years since the invention of voice broadcasting, that doesn't mean people have stopped using its predecessor, Morse code. But as of yesterday, the people most likely to use ...

Every night since March 1929, a bright, red beacon has flashed on the Pittsburgh skyline. The beacon sits atop the historic Grant Building and, in international Morse code, spells the city's name. At ...

When the S.S. Vestris foundered off the Virginia Capes in 1928 with the loss of 110 lives, it wasn’t for lack of a telegraph officer urgently tapping out Morse code. But the SOS came too late — by six ...