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
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
By this method it is possible to learn the Morse alphabet in less than an hour.
From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America
It is therefore possible with this arrangement, and by the use of the Morse alphabet, to establish an optical communication at a distance.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885 by Various
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