: either of two codes consisting of variously spaced dots and dashes or long and short sounds used for transmitting messages by audible or visual signals
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Subtle nods to the tech-forward campus location are woven throughout, from lamps with Morse code messages to neon lighting inspired by Cornell alumni inventions.
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Laura Parker, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
It was first created during the 1830s by Samuel F.B. Morse but was later improved in 1851 to create the simpler, more precise International Morse code system.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2024
In response, Germans seized upon a new technology with the potential to undermine the entire nineteenth-century international communications system of submarine cables and news agencies: wireless telegraphy, which sent electrical impulses through the air to convey information in Morse code.
—Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2019
In one experiment with sensors attached to index fingers, a volunteer was able to send messages using Morse code, with a bent finger representing a dash and a straight finger a dot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
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Laura Parker, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2024
It was first created during the 1830s by Samuel F.B. Morse but was later improved in 1851 to create the simpler, more precise International Morse code system.
—Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 30 Sep. 2024
In response, Germans seized upon a new technology with the potential to undermine the entire nineteenth-century international communications system of submarine cables and news agencies: wireless telegraphy, which sent electrical impulses through the air to convey information in Morse code.
—Heidi Tworek, Foreign Affairs, 25 Apr. 2019
In one experiment with sensors attached to index fingers, a volunteer was able to send messages using Morse code, with a bent finger representing a dash and a straight finger a dot.
—IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2024
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Morse code
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: either of two codes consisting of dots and dashes or long and short sounds used for sending messages
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