The salutation is actually a telephone joke. These words were, according to numerous 19th-century accounts , suggested to Morse by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of the federal Patents commissioner.
Annie got the idea from her mother. Here is, according to a Morse-code translation website, what the original message would have looked like in Morse code:. One curious footnote: There are scattered accounts that argue there were earlier telegraphic messages sent by Morse.
Most of this, I must admit, seems foreign to me. And not just because I have no idea what that alleged missive refers to, other than the fact that it appears in an edition of the Niles Register , a popular 19th-century news magazine, as part of an equally perplexing manuscript. My mind reels to imagine what it was like for journalists who filed their stories by telegraph. Until, eventually, inevitably, the technology is all but forgotten. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic.
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