To revive her dad’s old straight key, a sturdy mid-20th century ... we featured this vintage telegraph sounder revived with a Morse code sender not too long ago.

Samuel Morse. However, maybe we should call it Vail code after Alfred Vail, who may be its real inventor. Haven’t heard of him? You aren’t alone. Yet he was behind the first telegraph key and ...

First used to send messages over land in 1844, Morse code outlived the telegraph age by becoming the lingua franca of the sea. But by the late 20th century, satellite radio was turning it into a ...