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Teaching The small secret of Morse code

The small secret of Morse code

It was October 1837. Samuel Morse and I sat in our workshop, studying the many improvements that I, Alfred Vail, had made to Morse’s new telegraph machine. I had rebuilt the mechanism to make it much simpler, and now it was working pretty well.

Pamela Dell
Cricket Media

ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

How can codes send messages efficiently?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

2,3
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