Happy Birthday to

Duke Ellington

Here are two performances for your listening enjoyment.

 Satin Doll

Take the "A" Train

Happy Birthday

Today is Samuel Morse's  222nd Birthday.

Morse built the first American telegraph around 1835.A telegraph sends electrical signals over a long distance, through wires.Morse patented a working telegraph machine in 1837, with help from his business partners Leonard Gale and Alfred Vail. Morse used a dots-and-spaces code for the letters of the alphabet and the numbers (Morse Code was later improved to use dots, dashes and spaces: for example E is dot, T is dash, A is dot-dash, N is dash-dot, O is dash-dash-dash, I is dot-dot, S is dot-dot-dot, etc.). By 1838, Morse could send 10 words per minute. Congress provided funds for building a telegraph line between Washington D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland, in 1843. Morse sent the first telegraphic message (from Washington D.C. to Baltimore) on May 24, 1844; the message was: "What hath God wrought?" The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communications.

Here is the International Morse code alphabet.

International Morse Code

  A   .-       U   ..-    
  B   -...     V   ...-   
  C   -.-.     W   .--    
  D   -..      X   -..-   
  E   .        Y   -.--   
               Z   --..   
  F   ..-.
  G   --.      0   -----  
  H   ....     1   .----  
  I   ..       2   ..---  
  J   .---     3   ...--  
               4   ....-  
  K   -.-      5   .....  
  L   .-..     6   -....  
  M   --       7   --...  
  N   -.       8   ---..  
  O   ---      9   ----.  

  P   .--.     Period      .-.-.-
  Q   --.-     Comma       --..--
  R   .-.      ? Mark      ..--..
  S   ...      Hyphen      -....-
  T   -        Apostrophe  .----.
               Colon       ---...
  U   ..-      Quotation   .-..-.
  V   ...-     Slash       -..-.
  W   .--      @ sign      .--.-.
  X   -..-
  Y   -.--
  Z   --..

Happy Birthday

Thomas Jefferson

Today would be the 270th birthday of our 3rd president.

Today is

National Submarine Day 

You can find more information about it here

Today is

Metric System Day.



Metric prefixes in everyday use

Text	Symbol	Factor
tera	T	1000000000000
giga	G	1000000000
mega	M	1000000
kilo	k	1000
hecto	h	100
(none)	(none)	1
deci	d	0.1
centi	c	0.01
milli	m	0.001
micro	μ	0.000001
nano	n	0.000000001

Happy Birthday Washington Irving

Today is Washington Irving's Birthday (1783)