The first public demonstration of the electric telegraph, which uses Morse code, was done on Jan. 11, 1838, by inventors Samuel Breese Morse and Alfred Vail. Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day takes ...

What’s the worst thing about traditional Morse keyers? If you ask us, it’s the fact that you have to learn how to do two distinct things with one hand, and switch between them quite quickly and often.

Many of us geeks love codes, cyphers and other types of hidden messages, and there are few more famous codes than Morse Code. Developed in the 1800s, Morse Code is simple and easy to learn, it's also ...

If the alphabet was two letters long, everyone could be a Morse code expert in half an hour. Learning the full 26 letters, plus 10 numbers will take a bit longer. The Winona Amateur Radio Club is ...

Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to learn a new language is immersion: just throw someone into a situation where they have no choice, and they’ll learn by context. Militaries use immersion ...

Morse Code Day, observed on April 27, honors Samuel Morse, the inventor of Morse code, and celebrates this groundbreaking method of communication. Before modern technology, messages took weeks to ...

Amateur radio operators, the last bastion of the dot-dot-dash, have long been required to pass a Morse code test to earn a license from the U.S. government. After years of fielding complaints from a ...