Morse alphabet
Example Sentences
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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
They were written in the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet.
From The White Lie by William Le Queux
He could give Jessie and Amy a deal of information about the Morse alphabet as used in the commercial wireless service.
From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Margaret Penrose
The sending upon the sounder instrument, which is that chiefly used, is done by a small key with handle being depressed and released according to the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet.
From The Bristol Royal Mail Post, Telegraph, and Telephone by Robert Charles Tombs
A motion of this long massless index to the left was regarded as a dot, a motion to the right as a dash, and the Morse alphabet could therefore be employed.
From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Andrew Gray
