America gets smaller--today marks the anniversary of the completion of the United States' first transcontinental telegraph line. A reprint of an 1881 article in The Californian magazine detailing the construction and the first messages can be found here, and if you like stuff like this, it is a great read.
Also, a neat little Java applet that lets you type in a message and hear it replayed in Morse code.
Pretty neat stuff--no telling what you could do with electronic binary code.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at October 24, 2006 09:01 AM-... ..- - -.-. .- -. -.-- --- ..- ..- ... .
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Heheheeee--for those of you who'd like to see the joke, highlight and copy the above dotsndashes and paste them into this little gadget.
And I'll ask Mr. Morse and see what he says about the idea. I'm sure he'll be interested.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 24, 2006 12:45 PMThat is WAY cool! I love junk like that.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at October 24, 2006 01:14 PM