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The Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company was a major late 19th/early 20th century ship repair and conversion facility located in New York City.Begun in the 1880s as a small shipsmithing business known as the Morse Iron Works, the company grew to be one of America's largest ship repair and refit facilities, at one time owning the world's largest floating dry dock.
A signal lamp (sometimes called an Aldis lamp or a Morse lamp [1]) is a visual signaling device for optical communication by flashes of a lamp, typically using Morse code. The idea of flashing dots and dashes from a lantern was first put into practice by Captain Philip Howard Colomb , of the Royal Navy, in 1867.
Fairbanks, Morse and Company was an American manufacturing company in the late 19th and early 20th century. Founded in 1823 as a manufacturer of weighing scales, it later diversified into pumps, engines, windmills, coffee grinders, radios, farm tractors, feed mills, locomotives, and industrial supplies.
1) Morse signaling by hand-flags or arms; 2) Loud hailer (megaphone); 3) Morse signaling lamp; 4) Sound signals. L Lima [ˈli.mə] "You should stop your vessel instantly." Latitude (The first 2 digits denote degrees; the last 2 denote minutes.) M Mike [maɪk] "My vessel is stopped and making no way through the water." [b] N November [noʊˈvɛm ...
A Morse code light is light in which appearances of light of two clearly different durations (dots and dashes) are grouped to represent a character or characters in the Morse Code. For example, "Mo(A)" is a light in which in each period light is shown for a short period (dot) followed by a long period (dash), the Morse Code for "A".
Triggers a flashing white light on the same marker beacon receiver used for the outer and middle markers; also a series of audio tone 'dots' at a frequency of 3,000 Hz in the headset. On some older marker beacon receivers, instead of the "O", "M" and "I" indicators (outer, middle, inner), the indicators are labeled "A" (or FM/Z), "O" and "M ...
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The Brooklyn Morse Dry Dock were an early 20th-century American soccer team sponsored by the Morse Dry Dock and Repair Company (Morse D.D.&R.). The team played its home games at Morse Oval in South Brooklyn. [1] Morse played the 1917–1918 season in the Metropolitan Division of the New York State League. [2]