To transmit messages across telegraph wires, in the 1930s Morse and Vail created what came to be known as Morse code.

为了在电报线之间传送信息，在20世纪三十年代摩尔斯和威尔创造了摩尔斯电码。

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By the time he was eleven, he had set up a home-made telegraph and was practicing the Morse Code.

等到了十一岁时，他已经装配起一个简易电报机，并时常练习摩尔斯电码。

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Morse found that source of power, and he also invented a system for using the telegraph, the Morse code.

摩尔斯找到了那种电源，同时他还发明了了“摩尔斯码”系统用于电报。

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He worked so hard at it that he could eventually take telegraph messages by ear rather than by transcribing the Morse code a feat only two other people in America could perform.

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