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Sectional view of a telegraph tower for Claude Chappe's semaphore, 1792, (c1870).
Sectional view of a telegraph tower for Claude Chappe's semaphore, 1792, (c1870). Chappe's (1763-1805) system was in use in France and French colonies until about 1850. Every 5 to 10 miles men in a repeater tower read the message through a telescope, then relayed it to the next tower. From Les Merveilles de la Science by Louis Figuier. (Paris, c1870).
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AR924447
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Image
Purpose
Public
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3046px × 5734px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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18th century
19th century
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Chappe
Claude
Claude Chappe
COMMUNICATIONS
concept
country
cross-section
eighteenth century
Engraving
Figuier
France
French
INNOVATION
Invention
LOCATION
Louis
Louis Figuier
Monochrome
NINETEENTH CENTURY
Oxford Science Archive
Print Collector1
Science
Semaphore
SIGNAL
signalling
TELEGRAPHY