Morse Code is a method of sending messages using dots and dashes. It was named after Samuel Morse who helped invent it.
Messages are sent using letters that are formed by a combination of dots and dashes. Dots are short beeps, clicks or flashes and dashes are longer ones. The dot duration is the basis unit of time measurement in Morse Code transmission. The duration of a dash is three times the duration of a dot.
Each dot or dash in a character is followed by a pause of the dot duration. Letters are separated by three blank dots and words are separated by seven blank dots. Morse code was designed so the length of each letter is based on how frequently it appears in the English language. ‘E’ is therefore the shortest – one single dot.
Morse Code is no longer used as much as it was in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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