The Titanic famously (or infamously) used Morse code to call out in distress at the end of its final voyage. Ships at sea and the land-based stations that supported them used Morse code for decades, ...

Thanks to Charlestown-born Samuel F.B. Morse, communication changed rapidly, and has been changing ever faster since. The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance ...

SOS is widely recognized as the universal distress signal, but contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t stand for anything.

It may be the ultimate SOS--Morse Code is in distress. The language of dots and dashes has been the lingua franca of amateur radio, a vibrant community of technology buffs and hobbyists who have ...

Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse spent summers at his Locust Grove Estate in New York. The 14,000-square-foot villa has 45 rooms ...

My last post described the Morse code being laid down on Mars by the Curiosity Rover’s tire treads. I got a couple of messages on the theme of “Morse code? People still use that?” Many commercial and ...

In the modern world of smartphones and lightning fast internet, amateur (ham) radio operators still enjoy communicating over the radio by tapping telegraph keys just like the pioneers did in the ...

Navy ships typically communicate with each other via radio or satellites, but every ship has a few backups just in case. One of the most common backups is the signal lamp, where sailors can send Morse ...

You may wonder why anyone would want to learn Morse code. You don’t need it for a ham license anymore. There are, however, at least three reasons you might want to learn it anyway. First, some people ...

Computers and cell phones have become the norm of communication. What would happen if we faced a catastrophic emergency or lost our electrical grid, making our phones and computers useless? Who would ...

Microsoft has revealed the inner-workings of a phishing attack group's techniques that uses a 'jigsaw puzzle' technique plus unusual features like Morse code dashes and dots to hide its attacks. The ...

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...