Where was the Morse Code first used?

Where was the Morse Code first used?

Do you know what the Morse Code was? It was a way of sending information from one place to another, using a system of dots and dashes that are transmitted telegraphic through electromagnetic recording.

The Morse Code was the brainchild of Samuel Morse, an American painter of portraits and historic scenes. The idea came to him when he was on a ship to New York. There he met Dr. Charles Jackson of Boston who was well schooled in electromagnetism. After witnessing various experiments with Jackson’s electromagnet, Morse became hooked on the concept of a telegraph. He was already devising his code even before the ship docked.

Morse did not have much money to spend on his invention. It was only in 1944 that the US Congress allocated the money to string a copper wire between Washington and Baltimore. Morse then tapped out the first telegraphic message from the Supreme Court Building. It read ‘What has God wrought’. In time, the Morse code would become the primary language of telegraphy in the world.