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From: gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Telegraph History....Again!
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Date: 27 Sep 89 14:41:48 GMT
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In article  "Marc T. Kaufman"
 writes:

>That's because the telegraph code was American Morse, which cannot send
>dashes.  Everything was dots, and the timing between them.  Telegraphs had
>sounders, not buzzers.

Sorry, that isn't quite correct.  Yes, the code was the American Morse
Code, but American Morse _does_ indeed have dashes.  Many of the characters
are identical to the International Morse Code used today.   As soon as I
find my American Morse chart, I'll post a side-by-side chart of American
vs. International Morse.


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