On May 24, 1844, the day of the first public telegraph test on the 40-mile line, it was Morse who wrote the four words on a slip of paper and transmitted them in Morse code from Capitol Hill to ...
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. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...