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MORSE CODE 



lir -lnppi-,1 a- an "iilinai y -ram. m 

 ti> the South Sea I lands to investi- 

 gate tin- 1 1 a (lie ill natives, writing a 

 n this ev il to 'I'hr 



Mell.oume .\ue. Then he journeyed 

 ,\ <;uiin-:i, \\horo he was 

 hailly wounded in an encounter 

 \Mth natives. After recovery ho 

 -tin lied medicine at Edinburgh, 

 taking his degrees in 1887. Further 

 travels followed, and then, return- 

 ing to England, he became asso- 



with The Times. 



In 1897 Morrison proceeded to 

 Peking as resident correspondent 

 for Tin- Times, and in 1900 took 

 an active part in the defence of the 

 legations during the Boxer rising. 

 He represented his paper at the 

 triumphal entry of the Japanese 

 into Port Arthur, sending the first 

 authoritative account of the Rus- 

 sian surrender, and at the Ports- 

 mouth peace conference, 1905. In 

 1907 and 1910 he made long jour- 

 neys across China. Up to 1912 his 

 telegrams and letters were a fea- 

 ture of The Times. In that year he 

 became political adviser to the first 



g-esident of the Chinese republic. 

 e died at Sidmouth, May 30, 

 1920. His published works include 

 An Australian in China, 1895. 



Morrison, ROBERT (1782-1834). 

 British missionary. He was born 

 at Morpeth of Scottish parentage, 

 Jan. 5, 1782, 

 and in 1807 

 was sent by 

 the L.M.S. as 

 a missionary 

 to Canton. 

 Two years 

 later he be- 

 came an offi- 

 cial translator 



to the East India Company. He 

 translated the Bible into Chinese, 

 prepared a grammar and dictionary, 

 and was the founder of the Anglo- 

 Chinese College at Malacca. He 

 died at Canton, Aug. 1, 1834. 



Morriston. River of Ross-shire 

 and Inverness-shire, Scotland. It 

 rises near Loch Cluny and falls 

 into Loch Ness at Invermorriston 

 in Inverness-shire. Its length is 

 19 m. The beautiful district 

 through which it flows is known as 

 Glen Morriston. Morriston is also 

 the name of an industrial suburb of 

 Swansea, at one time a separate 

 village It has a station on the 

 CJ.W. Rly. and ia 2 m. from the 

 town proper in a N.E. direction. 

 See Swansea 



Morristown. Town of New 

 Jersey, U.S.A., the co. seat of 

 Morris co. On the Whippany 

 river, 22 m. by rly. VV. of Newark, 

 it is served by the New Jersey and 



Pennsylvania and other rlys., and 

 is hiri/ely a residential district for 



N'ru YOI!. buSinOH* |>eop|r III 



the Mighbowhood i-< "in- of the 



largest hospital-, for the iii.-ane m 



the U.S.A. Settled about 1710, 

 M'iinstown was incorporated in 

 1865. Twice during the Revolution 

 it was the headquarters of Wash- 

 ington. Pop. 12,500. 



Morris Tube. Mechanical 

 arrangement which permits of 

 small bore cartridges being fired 

 from a rifle of larger calibre. It 

 thus provides a means whereby 

 practice with the weapon may be 

 obtained at short ranges and at 

 much less cost than if the full sized 

 ammunition were used. It consists 

 of a rifled steel tube which is fitted 

 inside the barrel of the rifle. In the 

 British army it was widely used 

 with the service rifle, until it was 

 displaced by the miniature rifle. 

 See Musketry ; Rifle. 



Morrow, GEORGE (b. 1869). 

 Irish artist and illustrator. Born in 

 Belfast, he studied in that city, 

 London, and Paris. He was princi- 

 pally known as a contributor to 

 Punch, in which journal some of 

 his most humorous skits on con- 

 temporary life appeared. He also 

 worked for many other magazines 

 in various veins of sentiment, and 

 illustrated books of many types. 



Morse, SAMUEL FINLEY BREESE 

 (1791-1872). American inventor. 

 Born April 27, 1791, and graduat- 

 ing at Yale in 

 1810, he early 

 showed artistic 

 ability and 

 came to study 

 art in England 

 with Allston 

 and Benjamin 

 West, exhibit- 

 ing at the R.A. 

 in 1813. Two 

 yenrs later 

 he returned to 



S. F. B. Morse, 

 American inventor 



New York and 



settled down as a portrait painter. 

 In 1826 he was appointed first 

 president of the national academy 



Morriston 



The Scottish river where it descends into 

 Loch Ness at Invermorriston 



of design. Interested in acience. 

 he experimented in the phenomena 



'.I |i i trirjt y. rn<l '-i.riccived 'he 

 Og it an a mean* of 

 communication, with the result 

 that in 1835 he produced a tele- 

 graph at New York university, 

 naif a mil in length. A pubuc 

 exhibition 01 his invention in 1837 

 led to his association with the 

 New Jersey firm of Vail. 



Unable to interest American or 

 European governments in his in- 

 vention, for some years he devoted 

 his time and means to perfecting it. 

 At last, in 1843, Congress voted 

 money for a line from Washington 

 to Baltimore, and the following 

 year the first telegraph message, 

 reading ; " What hath God 

 wrought ? " was dispatched from 

 the capital, May 24, 1844. Morse 

 helped to introduce daguerreotyp- 

 ing into America, and conceived the 

 idea of an Atlantic cable. He died 

 at New York, April 2, 1872. See 

 Life, S. I. Prime, 1875 ; S. F. B. 

 Morse, his letters and journals, 

 ed. E. 8. Morse, 1914. 



Morse Code. System of signals 

 for the telegraphic transmission of 

 alphabetic letters, numerals, punc- 

 tuation marks, and conventional 

 phrases. The original code, de- 

 vised in 1837 in collaboration with 

 Alfred Vail, was introduced by 

 S. F. B. Morse for use with his self- 

 recording telegraph. A revised 

 code, issued in 1844, and now dis- 

 tinguished as the American Morse, 

 is still in local use within the 

 U.S.A. and Canada. It allocates 

 to the letters most frequently 

 used the shortest signals. 



In 1851 an international con- 

 ference compiled a code, partly 

 from the American and partly from 

 three other systems. This inter- 

 national or continental code is 

 now used in all other lands, as well 

 as in ocean-telegraphy, both cable 

 and wireless. It is the Morse code 

 as used in the United Kingdom. 

 It avoids the five American spaced- 

 dot signals, and distinguishes the 

 letter signals by 

 limiting the ele- 

 ments to a maxi- 

 mum of four, the 

 numeral signals 

 and punctuation 

 signals being uni- 

 formly composed 

 of five and six 

 elements respec- 

 tively. Although 

 Morse is called 

 the dot-and-dash 

 system, the two 

 symbols are 

 not necessarily 

 short and long 

 in transmission. 

 They may repre- 



