Iles, George, 1852-1942 · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 204
ay, mar his code. In European SAMUEL F. B. MORSE 161 codes these spacings do not occur. In a minor detail ofcommunication, Morse now inaugurated a practice whichhas greatly economized the time and cost of telegraphy, bydevising brief and simple abbreviations of the words andphrases most in use. His… … The Baltimore Recording Instrument of 1844Now in the National Museum, Washington, D. C. for Atlantic. Parallel with the shortening of words hasproceeded the development of secret codes. In these codes,the words must be as unlike as possible, and each, of course,bears no suggestion of the phrase or…
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