Morse alphabet
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He had barely enough mastery of the Morse alphabet to communicate the routine messages relating to the railroad's business aided by the intelligence of the conductors and engineers as to what was expected of them.
From Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign by McElroy, John
They were written in the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet.
From The White Lie by Le Queux, William
This mode of correspondence is based upon the use of the Morse alphabet.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various
The Morse alphabet now in use was devised by a Mr. Vail, who assisted Morse in developing the telegraph.
From The Story of Great Inventions by Burns, Elmer Ellsworth
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