Curtis "Ovid" Poe on Nostr: Ever wonder what the letters in S.O.S actually stand for? Nothing. In Morse Code, ...
Ever wonder what the letters in S.O.S actually stand for? Nothing. In Morse Code, it's just ... --- ...
A painter in the early 1800s had been commissioned for a painting far away from his pregnant wife. He wrote her a letter, telling her he loved her. Days later, the reply came. She was dead. Traveling home as fast as he could, he still missed her funeral.
Grief drove him to spend the next few years helping to invent a faster form of communication. His name? Samuel Morse.
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A painter in the early 1800s had been commissioned for a painting far away from his pregnant wife. He wrote her a letter, telling her he loved her. Days later, the reply came. She was dead. Traveling home as fast as he could, he still missed her funeral.
Grief drove him to spend the next few years helping to invent a faster form of communication. His name? Samuel Morse.
#history