Dots and Dashes
The first telegraph was invented in 1837. In 1838
Samuel Finley Breese Morse created a more successful
commercial telegraph that sent messages using a
special code - Morse code. Before this invention,
most of the messages that were sent across long
distances were often delivered by horse or visually
through flags and later, mechanical systems, which
were called semaphore telegraphs. Unfortunately,
these systems were not successful because the
receiver had to be close enough to see the sender
and they also couldn’t be used during the middle of
the night.
I converted Josef’s original story into seven pages
of morse code printed on legal sized paper. This
system was never intende d to communicate long
stories, however, it was an interesting contrast when
comparing it to other systems of communication.
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