A new alphabet for radio, cable and telegraph was invented by Major General George 0. Squier, chief signal officer of the U. S. Army. Instead of dots, dashes and spaces of varying lengths of time, used in the Morse and Universal codes, General Squier's system employs three different wave intensities of each half cycle of alternating current (uniform in time), to represent the dot, dash and space, making various combinations for each character. This brings it into line with modern progress in electrical transmission, which has been revolutionized since Morse's alphabet, the development...
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