Morse alphabet
Example Sentences
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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
He had barely enough mastery of the Morse alphabet to communicate the routine messages relating to the railroad's business aided by the intelligence of the conductors and engineers as to what was expected of them.
From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy
The flashes were watched, and were found to be in accordance with the Morse alphabet; and the joyful news was spread that their friends were telegraphing to them.
From Our Sailors Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston
The Morse alphabet now in use was devised by a Mr. Vail, who assisted Morse in developing the telegraph.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Elmer Ellsworth Burns
The result is symbolism, the Morse alphabet of art and "types," the epigrams of human nature, crowding us all into ten or twelve people.
From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Gerald Stanley Lee
