Samuel Finley Breese Morse, an accomplished painter and inventor, was convinced of the possibility of transmitting words using electricity and wires. In 1840 he patented “Improvement in the Mode of Communicating Information by Signals By the Application of Electro-Magnetism” and named it the “American Electro-Magnetic Telegraph.”
“Morse code is a communications language created by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail originally to be used with the telegraph. Each letter of the alphabet is made up of combinations of dots and dashes that were originally sent over telegraph wires or by radio waves from one place to another. Morse is the earliest type of digital communications, as the code is made solely from Ones and Zeros (ons and offs)….”
