The story starts in 1837 when Vail visited his old school, New York University, and attended one of Morse’s early telegraph experiments ... one for each letter of the alphabet.

The International Morse Code encodes the 26 letters of the English alphabet, but other languages ... as electrical pulses sent along a telegraph wire, and later via radio waves, but it’s ...

Telegraphs were first proposed in the late 1700s, using 26 wires, one for each letter of the alphabet ... For example, Morse’s telegraph used a pencil to mark paper, while Vail used a steel ...