VANISHING "MORSE "
NEW METHODS FOR OLE) People nowadays, are much accustomed to centenary and other anniversary celebrations of inventors in these days, but there comes occasionally one which has rather an kpnical flavour, remarks the Manchester-ASuardian. It is just 60 years since the death of Samuel Finley Breese Morse; by some accounts it is just a century since he made his great discovery, and many years passed before ha obtained full recognition for it. The 60th anniversary of Morse's death happens to coincide with the statement that the Post-office is pressing on its experiments in ne-v methods with so much energy that the Morse code—most famous of all telegraphing systems—is doomed in Britain. Long before Morse reaches the dignity of a " death-centenary celebration " " Morse," then, will be a word, in Britain at least ? bringing to a new generation no particular meaning. The case of Morse is not isolated: nothing can be more certain than that, within a brief period from the present, many others who seemed to have, identified their names timelessly with the English language will be passing by the same road.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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183VANISHING "MORSE " New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21414, 11 February 1933, Page 3 (Supplement)
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