[Elecraft] Samuel Morse's birthday (Friday, April 27th); good excuse to break out your old hand keys

[EricJ]

True, but without the promotion and entrepreneurship of Morse, Vail 
would likely not have developed the machines and code, and would have 
just been another guy puttering in the family machine shop. Both made it 
happen, but Morse was the face that people saw when the invention was 
demonstrated.

Eric KE6US


On 4/27/2018 10:50 AM, Fred Jensen wrote:
> Ahh yes, if life were fair, it would be the American Vail Code. Unlike 
> Sam, Alfred had access to the family machine shop, was an accomplished 
> machinist, and could build just about anything.  He even crafted his 
> code so the most prevalent letters in English have the shortest codes.