Morse alphabet
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This mode of correspondence is based upon the use of the Morse alphabet.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various
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
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
“We can learn the Morse alphabet, just the same, can’t we?” demanded her chum.
From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Margaret Penrose
The perforations being so arranged as to regulate the length of the contact, the result would be the transmission of long and short impulses corresponding with the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
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