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

A motion of this long massless index to the left was regarded as a dot, a motion to the right as a dash, and the Morse alphabet could therefore be employed.

From Lord Kelvin An account of his scientific life and work by Gray, Andrew

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

Calmly he seated himself at the instrument and ticked off the inspired words in the dots and dashes of the Morse alphabet.

From Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume II by Morse, Samuel F. B. (Samuel Finley Breese)

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