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Samuel Finley Breese Morse |
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Alfred Vail |
Did you know?
The invention of dots and dashes as we know it isn't the first idea for Code.
Each word was given a number and was to be sent in that manner.
Alfred Vail came up with the idea of giving each letter and pro-signs dots and dashes instead.
Samuel Morse patented the idea and used his name, and the rest is history.
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Morse Code or Vail Code? The invention of the Morse code is generally attributed to Samuel F. B. Morse. Have we been mislead by historians? Have historians overlooked important documents? Or have historians just not shared all the facts with us? The following quote is taken from an article in "The Century: Illustrated Monthly Magazine", April, 1888, by Franklin Pope, titled "The American Inventors of the Telegraph, with special references to the services of Alfred Vail". The article is quite lengthily and comprehensive and is recommended reading for anyone interested in early telegraph history. ... more at "The Telegraph Office" |
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