The several languages of seafaring come to young readers in a single volume with “Alpha, Bravo, Charlie: The Complete Book of Nautical Codes” (Phaidon, 120 pages, $19.95). Created and illustrated with ...

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, the language of the telegraph, is a system of communication that's composed of combinations of short and long tones that represent the letters of the alphabet. The tones are sometimes ...

More and more classrooms are incorporating some form of technology, such as tablets and virtual reality. But at Prince Edward Public School, five boys in Grades 6 to 8 are learning something a little ...

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signalled the first time in human ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Kate Neal's father was a signalman on HMAS Nizam in World War II. Years later, he'd absently tap Morse code on the kitchen table; even ...