"Morse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Folks laughed at Morse when he said he could send a message over the wire. He let 'em laugh, but we have the telegraph. Folks laughed at Edison, when he said he could take the human voice—or any other sound—and fix it on a wax cylinder or a hard-rubber ...
— Tom Swift and his Photo Telephone • Victor Appleton
... two young fellows by the name of Zwing Hunt and Billy Grounds who had been working at Philip Morse's sawmill over in ...
— When the West Was Young • Frederick R. Bechdolt
... began work on such a system in 1858 and as an officer in the British Navy worked hard to introduce it. Finally, in 1867, the British Navy adopted the flashing-system, in which a light-source is exposed and eclipsed in such a manner as to represent dots and dashes analogous to the Morse code. At first the rate of transmission of words was from seven to ten per minute. Recently much more sensitive apparatus is available, and with such devices the rate is limited only by the sluggishness of the visual process. This initial system was ...
— Artificial Light - Its Influence upon Civilization • M. Luckiesh
... thrown out by Donaldson,—a little. At Seventh Avenue and Forty-second Street our altitude was 2,000 feet. The great city lay beneath us like an unrolled scroll. White and dusty, the streets looked like innumerable strips of Morse telegraph paper—the people the dots, the vehicles the dashes. Central Park, with its winding waters, was transformed into a superb mantle of dark green velvet splashed with silver, worthy of a royal fete. Behind ...
— The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier • Edgar Beecher Bronson
... sitting so that I could see Jack's arm. I've been reading, from the motions of his right arm, the dots and dashes of the Morse ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies - The Prize Detail at Annapolis • Victor G. Durham
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