To revive her dad’s old straight key, a sturdy mid-20th century ... we featured this vintage telegraph sounder revived with a Morse code sender not too long ago.

Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

Dolbear patented this telegraph sounder ... of the Straight Key Century Club, whose thousands of members use simple up-and-down keys like those used by the first Morse code operators, instead ...

Morse code is a communication ... three dots. The code was initially transmitted as electrical pulses sent along a telegraph wire, and later via radio waves, but it’s versatile in how it can ...