The first public demonstration of the electric telegraph, which uses Morse code, was done on Jan. 11, 1838, by inventors Samuel Breese Morse and Alfred Vail. Learn Your Name in Morse Code Day takes ...

With over 160 years of history under its belt, Morse code is by far the oldest digital signaling system known to man. Originally developed for telegraph systems, [Samuel Morse’s] code has been sent ...

Reviving a 200-year-old system, enthusiasts are putting the digit back in digital communication Larry Kahaner Larry Kahaner is an American journalist and author who resides in Bethesda, Maryland.

A 100-year-old veteran codebreaker who intercepted German messages has spoken publicly for the first time about her role in ...

At last the evidence is in and no one can deny it any longer: There is intelligent life on Mars, it’s sending us a message and that message is: “Zrrmgc tflmtip brzzzz.” OK, so maybe it’s not so ...

[Rob Bailey] likes to build things and he likes ham radio. We are guessing he likes mints too since he’s been known to jam things into Altoids tins. He had been thinking about building a code practice ...

An apparent sign of intelligent life is, alas, nothing of the kind At last the evidence is in and no one can deny it any longer: There is intelligent life on Mars, it’s sending us a message and that ...