Morse Code

• The inventor of the telegraph (Samuel Morse, together with Alfred Vail) used a different way of encoding text.
• The letters of the English alphabet are encoded as follows in morse code:

A        .-              
B        -...            
C        -.-.       
D        -..             
E        .               
F        ..-.         
G        --.             
H        ....          
I        ..                
J        .---            
K        -.-           
L        .-..           
M        --             
N        -.             
O        ---                 
P        .--.             
Q        --.-            
R        .-.            
S        ...             
T        -             
U        ..-       
V        ...-            
W        .--            
X        -..-        
Y        -.--           
Z        --..

• If the duration of a dot is taken to be one unit then that of a dash is three units. The space between the components of one character is one unit, between characters is three units and between words seven units.