Samuel F.B. Morse patented an electric telegraph machine on June 20th 1840. In 1844, he gave a public demonstration of the telegraph by sending four words (“What hath God wrought?”) from the U ...

Morse code works whether flashing a spotlight or blinking your eyes – or even tapping on a smartphone touchscreen.

Opera singer Ada Jones using Morse code in 1915. Library of Congress archives. In March 2006, a college dropout named Jack Dorsey finished coding a site for Internet users to post 140-character ...

Alan Jones demonstrates the switch he made to allow his mother to communicate using Morse code. A 79-year-old woman who was almost completely paralysed after a fall has learned to talk to her son by ...