Morse Code Day 2025 is on Sunday, April 27, 2025: How did morse code relate to the national history day theme?

Sunday, April 27, 2025 is Morse Code Day 2025. Morse Code Day - the year of LIVING UNOFFICIALLY Morse Code Day .... . .-.. .-.

Morse Code Day remember the birth from the inventor from the Morse Code – Samuel Morse in 1791.

Morse code was the iPhone of it's day. The lastest hot gaget. You could communicate with someone hundreds of miles away by telegram in only a few hours time. A letter could takes weeks to travel those distances. Without the Morse code the telegraph was useless, like a computer without software.

Word about the gold strike in California in 1849 took almost 6 months to reach the east coast. By 1860 the pony express riders made the ride in about 10 days. In 1861, when the telegrams lines were completed, a message took more time to write out and deliver than it did traveling the distance. (BTW, the pony express was put out of business by the telegraph)

Website on Pony Express:

Website on Morse code:

National History Day Morse Code?

Boy.. I've got an idea for you.. hold on. I read a book by Eric Larson called "Thunderstruck".. it was a great book about the invention and application of Morse code into the big wide world and how it caught its first Murderer! Dr. Crippen murderered his wife .. dismembered her and buried her under the house and took off with a mistress. She didnt know what he had done. They boarded a Steamship bound for America.. it had the "Newly Invented" morse code receiver on it. They were able to send information to two police officers on another ship trying to outrun them before they got to the US.

It also parallels the efforts of Marconi to install huge transmitter stations around the England and other places to transmit interconnental messages... it all happens at the same time!

Slightly ironic that I was a "Radioman 2nd Class" in the US Navy .. I also know Morse Code! :) (see if you can translate this)

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--. --- --- -.. / .-.. ..- -.-. -.- / .... .- ...- . / ..-. ..- -. / .-- .. - .... / - .... . / -.-. --- -.. . Break..

What is Morse Code and how was it used with the radio?

Morse Code was used for the telegraph, not radio.

In the days before telephones, radio or television, the telegraph was the fastest way to get a message across a long distance. Telegraph operators could send a message by pressing a key quickly (making a "dot") or a little less quickly (making a "dash"). Every letter of the alphabet had a certain combination of dashes and dots assigned to it. The telegraph operator on the other end would hear the clicking, write down the letters, and send back a code saying the message had been received. Good telegraph operators could go very fast. That was Thomas Edison's first job!

If you've heard of the term "S.O.S." -- meaning the signal for distress -- that was a Morse Code signal. dot-dot-dot was "S" and dash-dash-dash was "O". So if you're ever stuck in a car or an elevator, hit the horn or bell three short times, three long times, then three short times. dit-dit-dit-dah-dah-dah-dit-dit-dit. There are still plenty of people around who'd recognize that signal immediately. I would.