·- 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.