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Google’s Morse Code For Samuel Morse’s Birthday

Posted on April 27, 2009

Google’s Morse Code For Samuel Morse’s Birthday, Google is marking the birthday of Samuel Morse by translating its name into dots and dashes for the day.

Visitors to the search engine’s home page this morning were met with the code “–. — — –. .-.. .” instead of the usual Google logo.

The witty doodle is intended to honour Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the inventor of the single wire telegraph, who was born on April 27, 1791.

A talented painter who was admitted into the Royal Academy, Morse only turned his hand to inventing in 1832, after meeting an expert in electromagnetism on a sea voyage.

He later patented his idea for a transmitting messages over electrical wires, which quickly became the standard method of swift long-distance communication. Every letter of the alphabet was translated into a combination of dots and dashes in the code to which he gave his name.

samuel morse code

samuel morse code

Supposedly, the logo is slightly off, in terms of morse code. I am not a morse code professional, but from the comments I have at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning, some experts are a little upset it is not in a single line. However, it does look a lot nicer this way. You can convert the morse code using a morse code converter if you like.

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