1. Communicating through dots and dashes
Morse Code
Communicating through dots and dashes

2. What is Morse code?
Morse code is a method of communication that relies on the transmitting of an alphabet constructed from dots and dashes.

3. How is Morse code transmitted?
electrical pulses along a telegraph wire
an audio tone
as a radio signal with short and long pulses or tones
as a mechanical or visual signal e.g. a flashing light.

4. Who invented Morse code?
Samual Morse invented Morse Code:
Morse invented the electrical telegraph
Morse finished his first working sample of the telegraph.
Morse changed the telegraphic symbols, from a telegraphic dictionary with number code to a code for each letter.
Morse sent the telegraph message "What hath God wrought" Washington, D.C. to his assistant, in Baltimore, Maryland.

5. How is Morse code used? 1890’s - Early radio communications
Navigational radio beacons
Continuous wave amateur radio operators.

6. How has Morse code evolved?
changes to eleven of the letters, was developed in Germany and eventually adopted as the worldwide standard as "International Morse".
The original code is now used only the United States and has became known as Railroad or American Morse code.