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Samuel Morse Birthday: From Morse Code to Mobile Phones

Under: Mobile Phones Date: April 27th, 2009

Samuel Morse Birthday: From Morse Code to Mobile Phones

Dot, dot, dot, dash, dash, dot…Morse Code inventor Samuel Finley Breese Morse was born April 27th 1791 and died April 2nd 1872 and today is of course his birthday reports product-reviews.

Samuel Morse was an American painter of historic scenes, but his worldwide fame comes obviously from being the creator of the Morse code system.

In its day, Morse code was the way of communication and was widely used during wars such as the Crimea and the American civil war. Communications have come a long way since the days of Morse code, yet in a way we still use the same type of tapping on today’s mobile phones when tapping out a text.

Not too different really, so one could say Morse code was the forerunner to text messaging. So readers, do you know anything about Morse code on mobile phones, maybe it’s possible to Morse a text message?

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4 Comments»

    April 27th, 2009 | 12:30 pmGururaja, VU2GRU

    In Nokia Mobile Phones, for SMS allert is given by the Morse code like ” … _ _ … “. ( three dots makes the letter S and two dashes makes the letter M.

    G Gururaja, VU2GRU
    Scientists, NAL, Bangalore, India.

    April 27th, 2009 | 6:24 pmJohn

    You can also get morse ring tones for your phone. I have it set up so all my incoming calls get announced in morse which is far more private in public then ring tones.

    Morse dead - don’ think so, check out - Morse in contest at 25 WPM and faster!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo2mCNJdvdk&feature=PlayList&p=773609ED8ED9403B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=12

    John W7NWH

    April 27th, 2009 | 6:49 pmJohn

    Morse code vs text messaging on the tonight show with Jay Leno

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc5j4Bia9nI

    The hams win!

    May 14th, 2009 | 4:42 amjohn H

    The Morse Texter worked on 1st and second generation Symian smart phones. It also worked by using the joy ‘tip’ well enough you could tap out text real fast and not have to look at the screen. Don’t think its supported anymore. Too bad.

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