For What reasons was the Morse Code used for????

Question

For a project i need to find out For what reasons was the Morse Code used for!!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you could give me an answer or website that would be great! thanks

Answer 1

Originally it was used to send messages for long distance. Voice message technology was not available. The radio, or wireless, was a future development. A land wire with a small electric current could send messages long distances. It played a part in opening up the West in the US.

Even with the development of radio, Morse code was superior in some ways. It doesn't require the bandwidth of voice. It can travel long distances. An S O S sent out by a ship is quite noticeable.

More recently amateur radio operators (hams) use it because it's fun. Messages can be sent around the world with a transmitter of very low wattage. (I am a former ham myself and used to use Morse code as a teenager.)

Answer 2

S.O.S. stands for save our ship. The first time it was actually used for real ,was the sinking of the Titantic. Many ships responded to the sos and thousands were saved.



It looks like this . . . _ _ _ . . .

S O S



It was invented in the late 1800's by Samuel F. B.

Morse, about the same time as the the radio as invented.



It was routinely disbanded less that 10 years ago, because, all boats now must have a radio, navigational charts, flairs, lifejackets, and some have radar and G.P.S. devices. Usually the Coast Guard is called on an emergeny channel.



Good luck.

Answer 3

Morse code is a method for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a message. The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks or pulses, in on off keying and are commonly known as "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs".



International Morse code is composed of five elements:



short mark, dot or 'dit' (·) — one unit long

longer mark, dash or 'dah' (-) — three units long

intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) — one unit long

short gap (between letters) — three units long

medium gap (between words) — seven units long[1]

Morse code can be transmitted in a number of ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, a radio signal with short and long tones, or as a mechanical or visual signal (e.g. a flashing light) using devices like an Aldis lamp or a heliograph. Morse code is transmitted using just two states (on and off) so it was an early form of a digital code. However, it is technically not binary, as the pause lengths are required to decode the information.



Originally created for Samuel F. B. Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, Morse code was also extensively used for early radio communication beginning in the 1890s. For the first half of the twentieth century, the majority of high-speed international communication was conducted in Morse code, using telegraph lines, undersea cables, and radio circuits. However, the variable length of the Morse characters made it hard to adapt to automated circuits, so for most electronic communication it has been replaced by more machinable formats, such as Baudot code and ASCII.



The most popular current use of Morse code is by amateur radio operators, although it is no longer a requirement for Amateur licensing in the USA and many other countries. It also continues to be used for specialized purposes, including identification of navigational radio beacon and land mobile transmitters, plus some military communication, including flashing-light semaphore communications between ships in some naval services. Morse code is designed to be easily read by humans without a computer, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels, as well as making it ideal for emergency signaling, such as by way of improvised energy sources that can be easily "keyed" by supplying and removing electric power (e.g. by flipping a switch or turning a flashlight on and off).



In situations in which the pulse can only be the same length (such as tapping on wood, or on walls of prison cells -- as opposed to an electronic tone), a slightly longer pause between beats can be used in place of a long pulse ("dah").



Morse code is a method for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a message. The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks or pulses, in on off keying and are commonly known as "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs".



International Morse code is composed of five elements:



short mark, dot or 'dit' (·) — one unit long

longer mark, dash or 'dah' (-) — three units long

intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) — one unit long

short gap (between letters) — three units long

medium gap (between words) — seven units long[1]

Morse code can be transmitted in a number of ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, a radio signal with short and long tones, or as a mechanical or visual signal (e.g. a flashing light) using devices like an Aldis lamp or a heliograph. Morse code is transmitted using just two states (on and off) so it was an early form of a digital code. However, it is technically not binary, as the pause lengths are required to decode the information.



Originally created for Samuel F. B. Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, Morse code was also extensively used for early radio communication beginning in the 1890s. For the first half of the twentieth century, the majority of high-speed international communication was conducted in Morse code, using telegraph lines, undersea cables, and radio circuits. However, the variable length of the Morse characters made it hard to adapt to automated circuits, so for most electronic communication it has been replaced by more machinable formats, such as Baudot code and ASCII.



The most popular current use of Morse code is by amateur radio operators, although it is no longer a requirement for Amateur licensing in the USA and many other countries. It also continues to be used for specialized purposes, including identification of navigational radio beacon and land mobile transmitters, plus some military communication, including flashing-light semaphore communications between ships in some naval services. Morse code is designed to be easily read by humans without a computer, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels, as well as making it ideal for emergency signaling, such as by way of improvised energy sources that can be easily "keyed" by supplying and removing electric power (e.g. by flipping a switch or turning a flashlight on and off).



In situations in which the pulse can only be the same length (such as tapping on wood, or on walls of prison cells -- as opposed to an electronic tone), a slightly longer pause between beats can be used in place of a long pulse ("dah").

Morse code is a method for transmitting telegraphic information, using standardized sequences of short and long elements to represent the letters, numerals, punctuation and special characters of a message. The short and long elements can be formed by sounds, marks or pulses, in on off keying and are commonly known as "dots" and "dashes" or "dits" and "dahs".



International Morse code is composed of five elements:



short mark, dot or 'dit' (·) — one unit long

longer mark, dash or 'dah' (-) — three units long

intra-character gap (between the dots and dashes within a character) — one unit long

short gap (between letters) — three units long

medium gap (between words) — seven units long[1]

Morse code can be transmitted in a number of ways: originally as electrical pulses along a telegraph wire, but also as an audio tone, a radio signal with short and long tones, or as a mechanical or visual signal (e.g. a flashing light) using devices like an Aldis lamp or a heliograph. Morse code is transmitted using just two states (on and off) so it was an early form of a digital code. However, it is technically not binary, as the pause lengths are required to decode the information.



Originally created for Samuel F. B. Morse's electric telegraph in the early 1840s, Morse code was also extensively used for early radio communication beginning in the 1890s. For the first half of the twentieth century, the majority of high-speed international communication was conducted in Morse code, using telegraph lines, undersea cables, and radio circuits. However, the variable length of the Morse characters made it hard to adapt to automated circuits, so for most electronic communication it has been replaced by more machinable formats, such as Baudot code and ASCII.



The most popular current use of Morse code is by amateur radio operators, although it is no longer a requirement for Amateur licensing in the USA and many other countries. It also continues to be used for specialized purposes, including identification of navigational radio beacon and land mobile transmitters, plus some military communication, including flashing-light semaphore communications between ships in some naval services. Morse code is designed to be easily read by humans without a computer, making it appropriate for sending automated digital data in voice channels, as well as making it ideal for emergency signaling, such as by way of improvised energy sources that can be easily "keyed" by supplying and removing electric power (e.g. by flipping a switch or turning a flashlight on and off).



In situations in which the pulse can only be the same length (such as tapping on wood, or on walls of prison cells -- as opposed to an electronic tone), a slightly longer pause between beats can be used in place of a long pulse ("dah").



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