Today, we use the international version of Morse code adopted in 1912, not the original developed in the 1840s by Samuel Morse (now called American Morse Code). For example, when Ellen prays Please, her P is comprised of five dots—not the dot dash dash dot in use today.
The Jarrett-Palmer Express, a promotional cross-country railroad trip, traveled from New Jersey to San Francisco in under eighty-four hours in June 1876.