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===Demise of commercial telegraphy===

In the United States the final commercial Morse code transmission was on July 12,&nbsp;July 1999, signing off with Samuel Morse's original 1844 message, [[wikt:what hath God wrought|'''{{sc|What hath God wrought}}''']], and the [[prosign]] {{sc|'''{{overline|SK}}'''}} ("end of contact").<ref name=Maritime-Radio-Hist-Soc-pab1_7/>

{{as of|2015}}, the [[United States Air Force]] still trains ten people a year in Morse.<ref name=Swling-2015-12-10/>