Not many people are interested in such outdated technology as the Morse code and the telegraph, but surprisingly, they are still used for communication today.
1. Although the Morse code was invented more than 225 years ago, it has been studied even today when preparing scouts and spies.
2. The Morse code is also called the “Victorian Internet” because the telegraph and Morse code has been used around the world to send messages for many decades.
3. The inventor of the Morse code – Samuel Morse is also one of the foremost portrait artists in the United States.
4. The US Congress appropriated more than $ 30,000 dollars to build the first telegraph line. In those days it was an incredibly large amount. It was a very big amount of money in those days.
5. In 2007, a Japanese company released a wristwatch with Morse code. Such an unusual clock will tell the time, using the Morse code, after pressing the “play”.
6. There is even a specific sport for telegraphing and understanding of Morse code at very high speed is called High-Speed Morse Telegraphy.
7. The national team from Belarus is the leader in High-Speed Telegraphy. In 2003, Andrei Bindasov transmitted 283 characters and 230 Morse code marks in the mixed text in one minute. This means that he was able to make about 700 beats per minute or nearly 12 per second.
