Morse alphabet

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Incidentally, he is of a scientific turn of mind and can rattle off the Morse alphabet as deftly as any operator in the business.

From The Confessions of Artemas Quibble by Train, Arthur Cheney

The perforations being so arranged as to regulate the length of the contact, the result would be the transmission of long and short impulses corresponding with the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Dyer, Frank Lewis

This mode of correspondence is based upon the use of the Morse alphabet.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various

You may think of it as a type of Morse alphabet.

From The Online World by De Presno, Odd

He soon learned the Morse alphabet and practised making the signals early in the morning before the operators arrived.

From American Men of Mind by Stevenson, Burton Egbert