We talk about Morse code, named after its inventor, Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone.

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In the modern world of smartphones and lightning fast internet, amateur (ham) radio operators still enjoy communicating over the radio by tapping telegraph keys just like the pioneers did in the ...

PORTSMOUTH — Twenty years before Samuel F.B. Morse changed the world with his electric telegraph, he was an itinerant painter in Portsmouth. Two of his paintings are part of a new exhibit at the ...

Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur station ...

Brass spring fastened on edge to board, two binding posts and plug cut- out. This piece of equipment is called a plug or wedge cut-out. It was used to remove equipment from the line without opening ...