Mickey Morse
Active Member
I just came across this: http://www.telegraphkeys.com
It has extensive photos of keys and peripherals from the history of telegraphy, by which I mean old-fashioned wire telegraphy rather than wireless or ham radio. It's not said but I bet a bunch of those keys were used for American Morse Code, which was different and denser (but harder to copy) than the International Morse Code that we used today.
There is also some later stuff there, including mention of the earliest electronic keyers. I didn't have any idea that the first commercially made keyers appeared in 1948 and used vacuum tubes! That's digital machine that predates ENIAC, even. See: http://www.telegraphkeys.com/pages/bugs/us_bugs.html
It has extensive photos of keys and peripherals from the history of telegraphy, by which I mean old-fashioned wire telegraphy rather than wireless or ham radio. It's not said but I bet a bunch of those keys were used for American Morse Code, which was different and denser (but harder to copy) than the International Morse Code that we used today.
There is also some later stuff there, including mention of the earliest electronic keyers. I didn't have any idea that the first commercially made keyers appeared in 1948 and used vacuum tubes! That's digital machine that predates ENIAC, even. See: http://www.telegraphkeys.com/pages/bugs/us_bugs.html
