What hath God wrought
Born in Charlestown, Massachusetts. My father was a prominent pastor and geographer. I studied art at Yale and the Royal Academy in London. For 20 years I was a professional painter. Then my wife Lucretia died while I was away painting a portrait. By the time the letter reached me, she was already buried. I never got to say goodbye. That grief drove the telegraph. On May 24, 1844: What hath God wrought -- sent from Washington to Baltimore. Tip: My code was not arbitrary. I visited a printer shop and counted which letters had the most type pieces. E was most common, so E gets a single dot. Always optimize for the common case. Alfred Vail helped me refine the system. Give collaborators credit.
Telegraphy
Electronics · 35y
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Code Design
Education · 35y
Learn Morse code -- the first digital communication system. On/off, long/short, 1/0. In two hours you will send and receive at 5 words per minute. We use a real telegraph key and sounder. Tip: Learn t...
€14 per_session
Brass telegraph key and electromagnetic sounder connected by wire. Press the key, the sounder clicks. The same setup that connected America coast to coast. Includes battery and wire. Set up two statio...
€10 per_day
Before the telegraph, I was a painter. Studied under Washington Allston and Benjamin West. I will teach you classical portrait technique: underpainting in burnt umber, building up layers, glazing for ...
€16 per_session
Small group (max 4). The principles behind Morse code, Braille, semaphore, and other encoding systems. How do you represent complex information with simple signals? How do you optimize for speed and r...
€18 per_session
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