Inventor. He invented Morse Code, a system of representing letters, numbers and punctuation marks by means of a code signal sent intermittently, while he was helping Samuel Morse on his invention of the telegraph. Morse's original code consisted of sending dots and dashes that represented numbers. Each number represented a word. This required looking up the number in a book to find the word. The system had problems printing out the messages clearly, so Alfred Vail came up with an improved machine and code. Unfortunately for him, Morse submitted the patent and received the credit for the new code.
Alfred devoted his last 10 years to compiling a massive record and genealogy of the Vail family, which was preserved after 1893 by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City (and, in recent years, the New York Public Library)
Alfred devoted his last 10 years to compiling a massive record and genealogy of the Vail family, which was preserved after 1893 by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City (and, in recent years, the New York Public Library)
Inventor. He invented Morse Code, a system of representing letters, numbers and punctuation marks by means of a code signal sent intermittently, while he was helping Samuel Morse on his invention of the telegraph. Morse's original code consisted of sending dots and dashes that represented numbers. Each number represented a word. This required looking up the number in a book to find the word. The system had problems printing out the messages clearly, so Alfred Vail came up with an improved machine and code. Unfortunately for him, Morse submitted the patent and received the credit for the new code.
Alfred devoted his last 10 years to compiling a massive record and genealogy of the Vail family, which was preserved after 1893 by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City (and, in recent years, the New York Public Library)
Alfred devoted his last 10 years to compiling a massive record and genealogy of the Vail family, which was preserved after 1893 by the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, New York City (and, in recent years, the New York Public Library)
Bio by: Rich H.
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