A telegraphic alphabet in very general use, inventing
   by Samuel F.B.Morse, the inventor of Morse's telegraph. The letters are
   represented by dots and dashes impressed or printed on paper, as, .-
   (A), - . . . (B), -.. (D), . (E), .. (O), . . . (R), -- (T), etc., or
   by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals
   between them.