FV11A2201TechnicalEnglishReadingCourse

VilleMlimki

Assignment2
24January2016

PhamThiHongVan0440171

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January31st 1997:
thelastdaywhenMorsecodewasusedfordistresscallsatsea,
themessagewassentinFrenchwatersimplyingtheendoftheuseofMorsecode.

February1st1997:
wasthefinaldeadlinefortheswitchfromMorecodetoGMDSS.

Gmdss:
refers to the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System, a new
satellitebasedsystemreplacedMorsecode.

MorseSamuel:
anAmericaninventorwhoinventedMorsecode.

Cooke William and Charles Wheatston:

British developer who created needle
telegraphwhichwasconsideredrivalofMorsecodeatsomepoint.

Vail Alfred:
an associate who helped Morse devised the original alphabet and
enabledthecodetospelloutmessagesaletteratatime.

American and international Morse: is the split of Morse code as the result of
accentsandotherforeigncharactersbeingaddedtotheAmericanversion.

MarconiGuglielmo:
istheinventorofradiotelegraphy.

Elbe:
asteamshipwhichwasrescuedthankstothefirstradiotelegraphdistresscall.

Titanic:
afamousshipsunkatseain1912,hundredspeoplediedintheaccident.

Californian:
theclosestradiooperatortowherethesinkingoftheTitanichappened.

Solas:
SafetyofLifeatSea.

KahnRobert:
apersonwhocodevisedtheTCP/IPin1973.

Cerf Vinton:
a person who codevised the TCP/IP, and also someone with
MorselikestatureintheInternetworlda.k.a.thefatheroftheInternet.

TCP/IP:
referstoInternationalProtocol.

1832:
whenMorsecodewasfirstscribedbySamuelMorse.

1850:
inearly1850s,Morsecodebecamedominantrapidly.

1851:
whenMorsecodewasadoptedasEuropeanstandard.

1870: by this year, one third of operators in the largest telegraph office in America
werefemale.

1871:
whenSamuelMorsesaidfarewelltotheglobalcommunityoftelegraphers.

1872:
whenSamuelMorsedied.

1890: by the 1890s, the invention of telephone and rise of automatic telegraphs,
Morsetelegraphfacedtheendofitsrise.

1897: when Guglielmo Marconi sent Morse code messages from land to a ship at
seausingradiotelegraphyforthefirsttime.

1899: when the first sea rescue thanks to a distress call sentbyradiotelegraphtook
place.

1910:
bythistime,Morseradioequipmentwascommononships.

1912:
whentheTitanicsank.

1914:
whenthefirstInternationalConventionforSafetyofLifeatSeawashold.

1988:
whenGMDSSwasintroducedinSOLASconvention.

09:
are the digits which dots and dashesrepresentedinMorsesfirstcodes,instead
ofindividualletters.

12 years:
the number of years Samuel Morse waited to secured money from
Congresstobuildhisfirsttelegraphline.

170years:
thenumberofyearssinceMorsecodesfirstinventeduntilitsfinaldays.