FERGUSON, Mo. -- Staccato clicks tapped from an old brass gadget. Derek Cohn, his ear fixed upon the mysterious rhythm, jotted letters onto paper. From Bloomington, Ill., came the weather report: ...

DEER LODGE — A steady series of clicks — to the untrained ear no different from one another — resonated from the telegraph key as Kerry Facincani opened the meeting with the traditional message first ...

Jim Wilson (right) of North Garden, the longtime editor of Dots & Dashes, the official publication of the Morse Telegraph Club Inc., interprets a message from his son Matt. SABRINA SCHAEFFER/THE DAILY ...

The 100th anniversary of the death of Samuel F. B. Morse, inventor of the telegraph, was observed quietly Sunday by his granddaughter, Ms. Clara Morse, by the placing of a bouquet in his memory on the ...

Through the crackle and fuzz of long-distance radio, Karl Thompson easily translated the steady dit-dah, dit-dah, dit-dah of Morse Code from across the Atlantic. Thompson, operating amateur station ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a century, lives and the world were affected by messages sent and received via a series of formalized “dits” and “dahs” known as Morse code. The tones are created by a ...