Truth

Haha..so you think..! But that's not that accurate. Even though the actual idea of Morse code and the communication using telegraph was first introduced by Samuel Morse, the real person that invented the Morse code was actually a man called Alfred Vail.

Samuel Morse was an art professor when he first introduced his idea of communication. Being a man in the art line, he invented his machine quite too complex and were too less effective. His first trial was in the gutter. Even so, Samuel Morse's idea of the telegraph attracted a young man called Alfred Vail. Even though Vail was 20 years younger than Morse, he managed to design and build a newer machine, a much more effective and simpler machine that could actually work.

The machine that was invented by Alfred Vail works miraculously, and they could now communicate between two people or more using the machines that were build by Vail.

But Alas, a massive problem occur. The machines now could work, but, they do not know how the message could be delivered; in what formed? Words by words? or codes?

Morse than came up with the idea of transmitting the message in numerical forms. For example, "307" is the code for the word "Victory", or "255" is the code for the word "eat" and so on. And so, Morse actually designed many numerical codes for every single words in the dictionary. Now the thing is, imagine you received a telegraph using this system, and you have to go through thousands of pages of numerical codes just to understand a single sentence of the message. That would take up hours.

And so, Alfred Vail came up with a better idea, that is using codes of dotes and lines on each an every single of the alphabets. Using this system, Vail and Morse could now spell the message with words by words, instead of memorizing thousands of numerical codes. This method, as how we see today will not only saves time, but also ensuring the accurate understanding of the messages that were send.

The question now is, why is that Samuel Morse got all the credits while Alfred Vail, who is the real inventor of the Morse code, was left unheard?