Talk:American Morse code

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In the image of the 1911 Chart of the Standard American Morse Characters, what is the bottom character in the right column?

• It is a stylized P, which is the typographical symbol for "new paragraph". According to G. M. Dodge's 1917 edition of The Telegraph Instructor, the four-dash Morse Code symbol meant "paragraph [drop a line]".Thomas H. White 19:28, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What hath god wrought?

I added some history of the first telegraphed message a while back, but I'm still unclear about one thing... Did the original message sent by Sam Morse include a quesiton mark? or was it simply "WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT" leaving the punctuation to be added by Vail when he received the message? Phauge 05:46, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

• A photograph of the message tape is at: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/n_telegraph_message.htm The transmission ended with a single dash for closing letter T of WROUGHT, and the question mark was added as being implied based on the sentence that was sent. Thomas H. White 6/16/2006

Thanks! Phauge 22:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merge with Morse Code?

Maybe I just don't know enough about Morse Code in general, but I don't see the point to this article. It really seems as if this should be merged with the regular Morse Code article. There is no European Morse Code article, and the Wabun Code article is short enough so that it could also be covered in the Morse Code article. Does anyone have a problem if I merge the articles into one? Phauge 06:08, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

This doesn't look like a good candidate for a merger, and consensus seems to be against it on the talk page for this. At the very least there is simply too much information on American Morse code to neatly merge into Morse code. I'm removing the tags so this gets out of the backlog. Orchid Righteous 18:54, 24 August 2006 (UTC)