CCT109H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Pinterest

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT109H5
• Professor: Paul Harrison

Document Summary

1800s, samuel morse an american brought the telegraph into popular use even though he didn"t invent it: his name is attached to the coding system morse code" which is digital and is formed of dots and dashes, morse code system used to represent the alphabet has a remarkable conceptual impact, telegraph is a device developed in the early 19th century for sending coded, although no one uses the system anymore, the idea of using a digital coding messages long distances over wires. scheme to break a message down into smaller components was both revolutionary and incredibly prescient, telegraph coding was first done by telegraph operators who converted words into letter by hand and each letter into code, which later became automated by the teletype machine to speed up the process, morse code was practical because it was simple, reliable and easy to implement.