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This document provides a table listing the Morse code equivalents for the English alphabet, numbers 0-9, and some common punctuation marks. It also includes some sample words and phrases translated into Morse code. Below the table is a brief history of Samuel Morse and the development of the telegraph and Morse code. It describes how Morse developed the telegraph in the 1830s and sent the first message between Washington D.C. and Baltimore in 1844, revolutionizing long-distance communication. The document also mentions a 2005 contest where elderly telegraph operators using Morse code outperformed teenagers using text messaging.

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Mnemonic Morse Code Chart Word Document

This document provides a table listing the Morse code equivalents for the English alphabet, numbers 0-9, and some common punctuation marks. It also includes some sample words and phrases translated into Morse code. Below the table is a brief history of Samuel Morse and the development of the telegraph and Morse code. It describes how Morse developed the telegraph in the 1830s and sent the first message between Washington D.C. and Baltimore in 1844, revolutionizing long-distance communication. The document also mentions a 2005 contest where elderly telegraph operators using Morse code outperformed teenagers using text messaging.

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Mnemonic Morse Code

A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q

R
S
T
U
V
W

a-BOUT
BOIS-ter-ous-ly
CARE-less CHILD-ren
DAN-ger-ous
eh?
fe-ne-STRA-tion
GOOD GRA-vy!
hee hee hee hee
aye aye
the BLUE JAY WAY
KET-tle KORN
li-NO-le-um
MORE MILK!
NA-vy
OH MY GOSH!
pa-RADE PAN-el
QUEENS WED-ding
DAY
ro-TA-tion
si si si
THRUST
un-der WHERE?
va-va-va-VOOM!
with WHITE WHALE

X
Y
Z
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
0

EX-tra ex-PENSE
YEL-low YO-YO
ZINC ZOO-keep-er
1 dot on left
2 dots on left
3 dots on left
4 dots on left
5 dots
(10-6) dots on right
(10-7) dots on right
(10-8) dots on right
(10-9) dots on right
5 dashes
Wait
Error

Understood
Invitation to transmit
End of work
Starting signal
Ending signal
dah

Here comes the bride...

How Capt. Ahab left this


world

dit

short mark, dot or 'dit' () one unit long


longer mark, dash or 'dah' () three units long
intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) one unit long
short gap (between letters) three units long
medium gap (between words) seven units long

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American inventor and painter. After a successful career
painting in oils (first painting historical scenes and then portraits), Morse built the first American telegraph
around 1835 (the telegraph was also being developed independently in Europe).
A telegraph sends electrical signals over a long distance, through wires. Morse patented a working telegraph
machine in 1837, with help from his business partners Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail. By 1838, Morse could
send 10 words per minute. Congress provided funds for building a telegraph line between Washington D.C. and
Baltimore, Maryland, in 1843. Morse sent the first telegraphic message (from Washington D.C. to Baltimore) on
May 24, 1844; the message was: "What hath God wrought?" The telegraph revolutionized long-distance
communications.
In 2005, the Powerhouse Museum of Sydney, Australia, held a contest between two elderly telegraph operators
using Morse code and two teenagers using text messaging on their mobile phones. The telegraph operators beat
them handily, despite their not using any texting abbreviationsand being 93 years old.

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http://oreilly.com/catalog/mindperfhks/chapter/hack53.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code

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