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NEW METHODS FOR THE OLD. People nowadays, are much acjtiustomed to centenary and other anniversary celebrations of inventors in ilhese days, but there comes occasionlly Xine which has rather an ironical flavour, remarks the Manchester Guardian. |Jt is just 60 years since the death of j§amuel Finley Breese Morse; by some 'accounts it is just a century since he Wide his great discovery, and many (years passed before he obtained full recognition for it. .
' The 60th anniversary of Morse’s .‘death happens to coincide with the ■statement that the Post Office ist pressing on its experiments in new methods with so much energy that the Morse code —most famous of all telegraphing systems—is doomed in Britain. Long before Morse reaches the 'dignity of a | ‘death centenary.celebration’’ ‘Morse’ Ihen, will be a word, in Britain at seast, bringing to a new generation no particular' meaning.
The case of Morse is not isolated: siothing can be more certain than that, fjvithin a brief period from the present, '|jnnny others who seemed to have identified tlieir names timelessly with the English language will be passing by the same road.
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Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1933, Page 2
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187MORSE CODE Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1933, Page 2
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