Based on only two symbols, dots and dashes, the Morse Code was conceived in such a manner that each letter and each number can be presented by a unique series of dashes and dots.
The American inventor and painter Samuel Morse, a man who designed the telegraph in 1836, invented it because his telegraph was able to transmit only those two signals (- dah, • dit).
Morse initially planned to represent only numerals with symbols, and for each word to have its own unique combination of symbols, recorded in the code book. However, his idea was promptly upgraded.
To save time, for example, the most frequent letter used in English, the letter E is represented with only one symbol and shortcodes are allocated to letters N, A and I.
Although it appears crude and quite simple, Morse code has seen a much wider and diversified application in various other forms of communication, from navy and aviation to radio-amateur communication.
Nowadays it is, without question, one of the most famous synthetic alphabets.
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