Hazel Picking, who has died aged 100, was a visual signaller in the WRNS during the Second World War. As a Girl Guide, Hazel Roberts (as she was born) had been good at Morse and semaphore, and, coming ...

When Samuel Morse sent the Bible passage "What hath God wrought" from the basement of the Capitol in Washington D.C. to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in May of 1844, he might not have suspected that Vail's ...

When Samuel Morse sent the Bible passage "What hath God wrought" from the basement of the Capitol in Washington D.C. to Alfred Vail in Baltimore in May of 1844, he might not have suspected that Vail's ...