Scrapped: Morse

A new alphabet for radio, cable and telegraph was invented by Major General George 0. Squier, chief signal officer of the U. S. Army. Instead of dots, dashes and spaces of varying lengths of time, used in the Morse and Universal codes, General Squier's system employs three different wave intensities of each half cycle of alternating current (uniform in time), to represent the dot, dash and space, making various combinations for each character. This brings it into line with modern progress in electrical transmission, which has been revolutionized since Morse's alphabet, the development of which has stood still for 80 years, was introduced in 1844.

The Squier System will gain 165% in speed of transmission over the present code, resulting in enormous savings of unification and time. The result of eight years of experimentation, it will help to solve the pressing problems of interference and congestion of the air lanes raised by the rapid expansion of radio.