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International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
International Maritime Museum
Phone:
+49 40 30092300

Address:
Kaispeicher B | Koreastrasse 1, 20457 Hamburg, Germany

Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment. It is named for Samuel F. B. Morse, an inventor of the telegraph. The International Morse Code encodes the ISO basic Latin alphabet, some extra Latin letters, the Arabic numerals and a small set of punctuation and procedural signals as standardized sequences of short and long signals called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs, as in amateur radio practice. Because many non-English natural languages use more than the 26 Roman letters, extensions to the Morse alphabet exist for those languages. Each Morse code symbol represents either a text character or a prosign and is represented by a unique sequence of dots and dashes. The dot duration is the basic unit of time measurement in code transmission. The duration of a dash is three times the duration of a dot. Each dot or dash is followed by a short silence, equal to the dot duration. The letters of a word are separated by a space equal to three dots , and the words are separated by a space equal to seven dots. To increase the speed of the communication, the code was designed so that the length of each character in Morse is approximately inverse to its frequency of occurrence in English. Thus the most common letter in English, the letter E, has the shortest code, a single dot. In an emergency, Morse code can be sent by improvised methods that can be easily keyed on and off, making it one of the simplest and most versatile methods of telecommunication. The most common distress signal is SOS – three dots, three dashes, and three dots – internationally recognized by treaty.
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