Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telegraph History....Again! Message-ID:Date: 27 Sep 89 14:41:48 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Gabe Wiener Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 413, message 5 of 9 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. Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings gabe@ctr.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu communication. The device is inherently of 72355.1226@compuserve.com no value to us."