On July 12, 1999, the nation’s final message in Morse code was sent out to sea from a remote Bay Area radio station. The end of an era, the room’s mood was mournful. Grizzled old men wept. “We wish ...

“Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.” With that, in January 1997, the French coast guard transmitted its final message in Morse code. Ships in distress had radioed out dits ...

Thanks to Samuel F.B. Morse, communication changed rapidly, and has been changing ever faster since. He invented the electric telegraph in 1832. It took six more years for him to standardize a code ...

Every night since March 1929, a bright, red beacon has flashed on the Pittsburgh skyline. In Morse code, the beacon spells the city's name. But... Pittsburgh's Morse Code Message Gets Jumbled Every ...

Last Saturday, more than 150 listeners across the U.S., Italy, France and Japan huddled by their radios to decipher a series of Morse Code transmitted by the Maritime Radio Historical Society. MRHS ...