Information AboutAlfred Vail |
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| 1807 births | |
| vail, alfred | |
| 1859 deaths | |
| american inventors | |
| people from new jersey | |
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Born in Morristown , New Jersey , Vail is best known as the developer of the Morse Code in the form close to as it is known today. For use on the his original equipment, Samuel Morse developed the dictionary based code which encoded the whole words, and he used it in public demonstrations as late as of 1838. The same year, while working for Morse, Alfred Vail developed the encoding of the alphabet and the equipment which can be used in practice. Vail died poor (having had to sell his stocks at a time when they were undervalued.) His contribution to the code was pushed by his wife Amanda following his death. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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