It all started around 1830. At that time, the eletroíman (a wire that conducts electricity and acts

The Morse code is a system of representing letters, numbers and punctuation marks through a coded signal sent intermittently and was invented and developed by Samuel Morse (1791-1872).
Samuel Morse
It all started around 1830. At that time, the eletroíman (a wire that conducts electricity and acts as magnet when electricity passes) had just been discovered and had already proposed some telegraph systems. During a boat trip between Europe and America, Samuel Morse talked extensively with other passengers on the eletroíman.
To receive the message, the other side of the line, there would be a special pencil made of iron that beat against the magnet, marking morse invention dots and dashes on a piece of paper moved by a rotating coil
When the project

began in 1832 the construction of an electric telegraph (important means of distance communication that uses electrical currents to control eletroímans that work for transmission or reception of signs), morse invention did not realize the difficulties they would face, both in the United morse invention States as in Europe where even denied him a patent of invention, until in 1843 secured financing. Congress has granted morse invention $ 30,000 to the project of building a telegraph morse invention line between morse invention Washington and Baltimore.
The following year came the first transmission and the success was so great that a company was created to cover the U.S. territory of telegraph lines. When in 1860 Napoleon III granted a fair award of recognition for his invention, already in the United States and Europe were installed numerous devices "Morse." At the time of his death the American continent was already crossed by more than 300,000 km of lines.
The first telegraph
A more modern telégrafio
The Morse code represents characters using "dots" and "dashes" corresponding to these electrical impulses and resulting in acoustic signals or lights of a certain duration. Thus, and taking the point as a unit, this has a duration of about 1/25 sec with a trace identical to the third points. The space of signals of the same letter is one point. The space between two letters is three dots (... or a line) and between words of five points.
Thus arises, for example, the "a" represented by a dot and a dash, a "b" by a dash and three points. Beyond this significance alphabetical Morse also created the necessary score: for example morse invention the endpoint is worth two points and two points and two points, one point is worth one point a trace a trace a point a point and a dash. Also the figures appear in this code meanings: the first is represented by a dot and four strokes, the 2 by two points and three dashes.
Unlike that one can not judge the Morse Code was first used for long distance communications, but for intercity communications. Typically for longer morse invention distances as mentioned above followed parallel cables railways. This was due mainly to that so there was no concern for rights of way because the lines were already in the state as well as the land through which they passed. The lines followed in high masts, because the subsoil, had not yet developed effective techniques to isolate the line. The Morse Code as many inventions had great development during the wars including the Civil War, which eventually evolved techniques for placing lines underground; wars Hispano-American (1898), in which journalists morse invention have used this technique for the first time as communication and finally the Russo-Japanese War, which were due to be pioneers first used the code for communication between troops.
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