Morse alphabet
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The young engineer had learned his Morse alphabet early in his railroad career, and knew something of the system in vogue along the line.
From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Allen Chapman
At the receiving end of the line the messages are produced on a tape in dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet, and hence a further process of translation is necessary.
From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Walter Kellogg Towers
All this, of course, was clicked out in the dot and dash code of the Morse alphabet, but to Joe 21 Dawson it was as plain as words spoken by the human voice.
From The Motor Boat Club and The Wireless Or, the Dot, Dash and Dare Cruise by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock
It is therefore possible with this arrangement, and by the use of the Morse alphabet, to establish an optical communication at a distance.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various
Very soon after this, however, as will appear from what follows, the dictionary was discarded forever, and the Morse alphabet came into practical use.
From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese) Morse
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