[Alexandria Radio Club Reflector] Samuel Morse, Happy Birthday and Thanks

[N4ASX at COX.NET]

Many thanks Don,
	How did Fairfax Hospital go.  We were told they begged out at the
last minute.
73 Rick

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Today is the birthday of Samuel Morse, creator of CW or the Morse Code used
by Hams and many others.   Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born on April 27,
1791.  He developed the Morse Code in the 1830s and 1840s with other
inventors, that resulted in the telegraph system that revolutionized
long-distance communication. In May 1844, Morse inaugurated the world's
first commercial telegraph line with the message "What hath God wrought,"
sent from the U.S. Capitol to a railroad station in Baltimore. Within a
decade, more than 20,000 miles of telegraph cable crisscrossed the country.
The rapid communication it made possible greatly aided American expansion,
making railroad travel safer as it provided a boost to business conducted
across the great distances of a growing United States.  Morse received a
patent for the telegraph in 1847.

 

Don, KI4D

 

Morse Code & the Telegraph - Inventions - HISTORY.com

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph 

 

 Samuel Morse - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

 

 

Timeline of North American telegraphy

 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_North_American_telegraphy>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_North_American_telegraphy 

 

 

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