What is Morse Code?

Morse Code is a character encoding scheme that allows operators to send messages using a series of electrical pulses represented as short or long pulses, dots, and dashes in other words.

Who Invented Morse Code?

Samuel F. B. Morse and his assistant Alfred Vail are known as the inventors of the Morse code.

When Was Morse Code Invented?

Morse code developed in the 1830s then advanced in the 1840s.

When Was Morse Code Patented?

Samuel Morse received a U.S. patent, US1647A, for dot-dash telegraphy signals on June 20, 1840. On the other hand, some sources claim that Samuel Morse received a patent issued by an Ottoman Sultan, Abdulmejid I, for Morse Code. However, according to Cyrus Hamlin’s memoirs and The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Samuel Morse received not a patent, but an order of the Ottoman Empire, Order of Glory, instead.