MAROON & ORANGE - Custom Morse Code Hoop Earrings, 14k gold fill or sterling silver, Virginia Tech Hokies

A perfect gift for Virginia Tech students, alumni & fans.

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ITEM DETAILS:

This listing is for 1 pair of Morse Code hoop earrings. First, the message is translated to Morse Code. Then the morse code dots and dashes are each assigned one of the school colors. Gold or silver beads (depending on which finish you select) are used to space the letters.

--- MESSAGE --- choose from "Hokies", "Go Hokies" or a custom message of your choice.

--- FINISH --- choice of 14k gold filled or sterling silver ear wire

--- BEAD COLORS --- maroon & orange

--- SIZE --- Earrings are 30mm (1.18 inch) diameter

--- PACKAGING --- Each pair of earrings arrives boxed with a morse code card including the alphabet translation key on back


Below is the Morse Code key to ensure your request will translate to less than 45 beads. Or feel free to MESSAGE US for ideas or questions. We are always happy to help! 

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MORSE CODE KEY:

A ·− K −·− U ··− 0 −−−−−
B −··· L ·−·· V ···− 1 ·−−−−
C −·−· M −− W ·−− 2 ··−−−
D −·· N −· X −··− 3 ···−−
E · O −−− Y −·−− 4 ····−
F ··−· P ·−−· Z −−·· 5 ·····
G −−· Q −−·− 6 −····
H ···· R ·−· 7 −−···
I ·· S ··· 8 −−−··
J ·−−− T − 9 −−−−·

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HISTORY OF MORSE CODE:

And now for a history lesson about Morse Code (courtesy of enchantedlearning.com):

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) was an American inventor and painter. After a successful career painting in oils, Morse built the first American telegraph around 1835.

A telegraph sends electrical signals over a long distance, through wires. In 1830, Joseph Henry (1797-1878) made the first long-distance telegraphic device - he sent an electric current for over a mile on wire that activated an electromagnet, causing a bell to ring.

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 D.C. to Baltimore) on May 24, 1844; the message was: "What hath God wrought?" The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communications.