Unless you’re a radio operator, Eagle Scout, or grew up in a telegraph office, your exposure to Morse code has probably been limited to RUSH pounding out the call letters for the Toronto Airport (if you’re not familiar, search YouTube for “YYZ”). That’s tech talk for a system of “dots” and “dashes” that represent numbers and letters. What they created was a binary encrypted alphanumeric code that could be just as easily transmitted visually, sonically, or tactilely. This partnership of a struggling artist and nerdy physicist would match letters of the alphabet to the varying durations between switching an electric current on and off. Long before the epidemic of tweeting duck-faced selfies with the Prime Minister of Denmark or posting your latest pasta selection at Olive Garden, Sam Morse (with some help from Joe Henry) was posting status updates to his BFFs as early as 1836. ![]() This article originally appeared in Issue 3 of our magazine.
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