The first hydraulic telegraph was invented in the fourth century B.C.E. by a Hellenistic writer on the art of war, named ...
Why does the landscape remain lit 30 to 45 minutes after the sun has set? Harriett Drake, Fayetteville, Georgia What you’re seeing then is twilight. From wherever you’re standing, shortly after sunset ...
Samsung wants to teach you about the history of electronics, as long as you can stay awake long enough to sit through the dull lessons. Through its Innovation Museum, the company is releasing five ...
Morse Code Day is April 27, 2018. Learn how the electric telegraph revolutionized how quickly messages could be received. Katya Vines, PhD You have big news that you want to share with family in ...
When Samuel Morse sent the Bible passage "What hath God wrought" from the basement of the Capitol in Washington D.C. to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in May of 1844, he might not have suspected that Vail's ...
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!
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the world’s first telegraph message, tapping out the biblical phrase “What hath God ...