American Morse code

American Morse Code -- also known as Railroad Morse -- is the latter-day name for the Morse Code specification originally developed, in the mid-1830s, by Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail for their electric telegraph. The "American" qualifier was added because, after most of the rest of the world adopted "International Morse", the companies that continued to use the original Morse Code were mainly located in the United States. American Morse is now nearly extinct -- it is most frequently seen in railroad museums and U.S. civil war re-enactments -- and "Morse Code" today virtually always means the International Morse which supplanted American Morse.

Related Topics:
Morse Code - Samuel Morse - Alfred Vail - Telegraph

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