Samuel Finley Breese Morse 

The telegraph invented by  Samuel Morse in 1837, university professor of design to the university of New York, in the 1832 was found to edge of a veliero in the full Atlantic Ocean. The language of Morse has advantage: it can not be only made of sounds but also of lights. In the communication between ships, of night, when for the dusk it is not possible to use the flags, us it can be served of marks them issued coded Vices using I affixed traffics indicator, beacons or torchs to you by hand. The alphabet Vices bound together to the international code of marks them all over the world concurs one communication through one valid standard.

The Morse code is based on the transcription of the 36 alphanumeric symbols through combinations of points and lines.

The telegraph has been used until few years ago by the greater Institutions Of The State, public and private corporations as: Armed strengths, State Police, prefectures, Ministries, ..., coastal stations, meteorological stations, embassies, railways, offices postal ... ..., saving many human lifes in the cases of shipwreck.

http://www.scphillips.com/morse/jtrans.html

Java Morse Code Translator

Download the software WinMorse -  Convert text into morse code. It does this by reading text from one of three sources: the Windows clipboard, a file, or you may directly type the text. WinMorse outputs the morse code as a standard windows wav file .

 Photo - Old telegraph