CBBC Presenter Ben Shires is back with another Family Mission for you this week! From sailors to secret agents, Morse Code was a very important mode of communication during the Second World War. Can you learn how to send Morse Code messages to your friends and family? Your full mission briefing can be found here: http://ow.ly/iPhy50AMuEc You’ll be able to discover the real life story of Bernie Bristoll who was the radio operator on HMS Belfast! | Imperial War Museum London

On April 27, 1791, Samuel Morse was born. Morse developed in the 1830s what became known as Morse Code, the primary language used in the transmission of messages using an electric telegraph machine. The telegraph, using Morse Code, is intimately tied to the development of Sacramento starting in the 1850s. In 1854, the Alta Telegraph Company built a telegraph line between Sacramento and Nevada City. Other lines started to connect Sacramento to other cities in California. On October 24, 1861, the