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Hace 2 días · Sperm whales communicate through a 'complex phonetic alphabet,' study finds. Researchers analyzed the codas of approximately 60 sperm whales. Sperm Whales in the Caribbean Sea, Dominica, in an ...
Hace 3 días · Documentan el extraordinario "alfabeto fonético" del cachalote. Las distintas especies de ballenas que habitan los océanos emplean diferentes tipos de vocalizaciones para comunicarse. Los cachalotes se comunican mediante ráfagas de chasquidos -llamadas codas- que suenan un poco como el código Morse. Foto Samuel Lam vía Ap.
Hace 3 días · The son of famed preacher and geographer Jedidiah Morse—whose book The American Geography (1789) was a best-seller in the country for decades—Samuel Morse began his career as an artist. After graduating from Yale College in 1811, he went to London to study painting and returned to the United States in 1815 with hopes of earning public acclaim for his art.
Hace 19 horas · When Samuel F. B. Morse wasn't creating Morse code, inventing the telegraph, or painting portraits, he was relaxing on the grounds of his Locust Grove Estate in upstate New York. Located about 80 miles outside New York City in Poughkeepsie, Locust Grove was built in 1852 on a bluff with views of the Hudson River below.
Hace 2 días · 1686. Daniel Gabriel Farenheit, inventor of the mercury thermometer, is born. On May 24, 1686, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit is born in Gdańsk, Poland. Fahrenheit later became a renowned physicist ...
Hace 2 días · When sperm whales swim together in the Caribbean Sea, they make clicking sounds, which sound a bit like morse code — some experts think they could very well be chit-chatting. In a new report ...
Hace 2 días · In 1832 Samuel F.B. Morse, a professor of painting and sculpture at the University of the City of New York (later New York University), became interested in the possibility of electric telegraphy and made sketches of ideas for such a system. In 1835 he devised a system of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers.
