23 reactions · 5 comments | Do you know Morse code? Samuel Morse, pioneer of commercial telegraphy, was born on this day in 1872. We had a bit of fun and recorded our name in Morse code | Royal Institution of Great Britain | Facebook

Morse code is one of the most influential communication systems ever created. Developed in the early 1830s by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail, it uses a simple combination of dots and dashes to represent letters, numbers, and symbols. These signals could be transmitted as electrical pulses, sound, or light, allowing messages to travel across vast distances long before the internet, radio, or mobile phones existed. This groundbreaking system powered the age of the telegraph, connected continents thr