Conventional wisdom holds that the best way to learn a new language is immersion: just throw someone into a situation where they have no choice, and they’ll learn by context. Militaries use immersion ...

If you are a ham radio operator of a certain age, you probably remember ads for “The Instructograph,” a mechanical device for learning Morse code. [Our Own Devices] has an ancient specimen of the ...

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In this modern age of texting and mobile phones it's perhaps hard to imagine where modern communication ...

A pair of smart shoes has been created to let industrial workers keep in touch via toe-typed coded messages. The footwear was inspired by Morse code, but made possible by the latest communication ...