The Morse code took communications to a new level more than 160 years ago. The telegraph was the equivalent of today's computer, and the Morse code was its language. In their day, telegraph dots and ...

Morse code, the dots-and-dashes signalling system first used at sea on the Titanic and long since consigned to the scrapheap, made a triumphant comeback this week in the rescue of a stranded fisherman ...

Today, the signal is casually tossed into texts during dating disasters or outfit emergencies, but its roots come from genuine life-or-death situations at sea. SOS entered official use in 1905 under ...