Episode Details

Imagine you have huge news to share with your best friend, but instead of sending a quick text, you have to wait four whole days for a horse messenger to deliver it! That's exactly how life was in the 1830s before a painter named Samuel Morse changed the world forever. After missing a terribly important message about his sick wife because the mail was too slow, Samuel decided there had to be a faster way to communicate. Teaming up with brilliant inventor Alfred Vail, they created the amazing electric telegraph! Instead of sending letters on slow horses, they sent pulses of electricity zooming down miles of copper wire in a fraction of a second! But how do you read electrical zaps? You invent a brilliant language of short dots and long dashes! Join Mira and Finn as they uncover the electrifying history of Morse code. We'll find out what the very first instant message said in 1844, how this invention shrank the world, and why the famous emergency signal S.O.S. doesn't actually stand for "Save Our Ship" at all! Get ready to tap into an awesome adventure from the past!