- A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing
by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are
represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .-
(A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or
by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals
between them.