Morse alphabet

Example Sentences

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He could give Jessie and Amy a deal of information about the Morse alphabet as used in the commercial wireless service.

From The Campfire Girls on Station Island or, The Wireless from the Steam Yacht by Penrose, Margaret

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

I was much struck with the simplicity of the Morse alphabet, and with the fact that it could be read by sound.

From Little Masterpieces of Science: Invention and Discovery by Iles, George

The young engineer had learned his Morse alphabet early in his railroad career, and knew something of the system in vogue along the line.

From Ralph, the Train Dispatcher The Mystery of the Pay Car by Chapman, Allen

The result is symbolism, the Morse alphabet of art and "types," the epigrams of human nature, crowding us all into ten or twelve people.

From Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy by Lee, Gerald Stanley