ThE Small SEcrEt of MorsE CodE
Apr 01, 2021
3 minutes
by Pamela Dell, art by Adam Larkum
It was October 1837. Samuel Morse and I sat in our workshop, studying the many improvements that I, Alfred Vail, had made to Morse’s new telegraph machine. I had rebuilt the mechanism to make it much simpler, and now it was working pretty well.
I’d first seen Morse’s device the month before, and I knew I had to be a part of this great project. The idea of messages speeding instantly through electric
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