Morse alphabet
Example Sentences
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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
Incidentally, he is of a scientific turn of mind and can rattle off the Morse alphabet as deftly as any operator in the business.
From The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Arthur Cheney Train
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
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
I was much struck with the simplicity of the Morse alphabet, and with the fact that it could be read by sound.
From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by George Iles
