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Transmission of language with brief pulses

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs. It is named after Samuel Morse, one of several developers of the system. Morse's preliminary proposal for a telegraph code was replaced by an alphabet-based code developed by Alfred Vail, the engineer working with Morse. Vail's version was used for commercial telegraphy in North America. Friedrich Gerke simplified Vail's code to produce the code adopted in Europe, and most of the alphabetic part of the (ITU) "Morse" is copied from Gerke's revision. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Morse codeA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Wearable Triboelectric Nanogenerator from Waste Materials for Autonomous Information Transmission via Morse CodeInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Night ShiftThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: Morse glasses: an IoT communication system based on Morse code for users with speech impairmentsCited 26 times
  5. Go sideways: Prosigns for Morse codeA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: CQ (call)A closely related topic

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  1. Development and history
  2. Operator proficiency
  3. International Morse code
  4. Representation, timing, and speeds
  5. Learning methods
  6. Characters and prosigns

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