Morse Code Research Paper

Morse Code There are many different ways to communicate. Hundreds of years ago, if you wanted to communicate long distance, a message would be written and delivered by a carrier. It wasn’t until a tragedy entered a great painters life that he turned from painting to becoming a great inventor. Samuel L. Morse was a painter and inventor who is is best remembered today for his invention of a single wire telegraph system and co-inventor of the Morse Code. He entered a formal school at the age of 9 and began collage at Yale at the age of 14 where he studied art. He continued painting for many years. During this time he married Susan Walker Morse and had 3 children. One day, he received a message that his wife had became ill and traveled home. By the time he reached her she had already died. Devastated by this news and the inability of the current message system to give him news faster, he started devising a plan to …show more content…
Communication relies upon satellites now a days, but old technology has a way of creeping its way back in, since it is simple, relatively cheap, and does not depend on the fragile grid systems of modern technology. Morse code operators stand ready to help in dire emergencies, grid failures, or war. For instance, an American soldier was captured by Japan and they, for the first time ever, made a live video stream telling the soldier to say that they were not hurting him and were feeding him well. Meanwhile, he was blinking “torture” in morse code. That was a big part of history. From then on the U.S. knew that Japan was torturing our soldiers.

Tragedy can drive us to do good or bad in this case Samuel Morse chose good. He invented a way of communication that has continued to help us today. Without Morse code, families would not have been able to communicate as quickly, and we would not have known that our soldiers were being tortured. This communication tool is still used