| Birth: | Sep. 25, 1807 | | Death: | Jan. 18, 1859 | 
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. (bio by: Richard H.)
Search Amazon for Alfred Vail | | | Burial:
Saint Peter's Episcopal Churchyard
Morristown
Morris County
New Jersey, USA |
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Record added: Sep 20, 2002
Find A Grave Memorial# 6794071 |
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