Inside the Supreme Court chamber of the U.S. Capitol on May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse sat down to make history. The moment was the culmination of more than 12 years of work, and it was only in the ...

Morse code is a method of encoding words that was invented in the 19th Century as a way of transmitting messages over long distances. This was before the era of telephones and way before smartphones!