Name: Pawn Stars: A WWII Morse Code Machine Is Worth Less Than Seller Thought (S10) | History
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I've got a 1943 World War II Morse code decipher machine.

You gotta realize, most of the World War II coding machines

were still illegal to have up to like, 10 years ago.

No, literally, you could go to prison for a long, long time

No one here in a black car followed you or anything,

It's a machine that they use, deciphering Morse code.

I got it from a friend of mine about a year ago,

and it's kind of cool, but money's cooler.

I'll take a little less, but not too much.

Almost all the messages were used through telegraph,

Sometimes we broke them, sometimes we didn't.

Code breaking was very, very important during World War II.

And if you screwed up in your Morse code just a little bit,

There's obviously a lot of vacuum tubes, or something,

That's World War II technology right there.

of a World War II decoder, or a really weird film projector.

Apparently you put something Morse code in,

used types of Morse equipment that we had in World War II.

That is actually the tape that goes into this.

To be perfectly honest, this was in my garage.

So I figured I'd bring it down, so that you could see it.

But this would actually be on a reel like this,

and it would beep, either with dits or dots.

Dips are the short beeps, dots are the long beeps.

But most men who went into the service didn't know Morse code.

A machine like this was really important because one dit

were actually being trained to do it precisely

So this was not used in the battlefield, obviously.

This was used in the states, in a classroom setting.

During World War II, Morse code was the common language

It's one of those codes that a lot of people know,

but in the military you had to be so exact that you had to go

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Pawn Stars: A WWII Morse Code Machine Is Worth Less Than Seller Thought (S10) | History

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