8/7/2019 MorseCode Students Worksheet

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Name: __________________________ Date:____________________

Morse Code

Morse Code was used to communicate among railway stations in the 1800s. Samuel Morseand Alfred Vail are credited with developing this system of dots and dashes on a moving

paper tape which emitted sounds. The telegrapher learned to distinguish letters by these

sounds.

Your name in Morse Code:

_____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____ _____

Can you decipher this message?

0 __ __ 0 0 0 0 0 ___ 0 0 __ 0 __ __ 0

0 0 __ 0

__ __ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0 __ 0 0 0

0 0 0 0 0

0 0 __ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

On the back of this sheet, write a message for your partner to decipher.