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Claude Chappe demonstrating his optical telegraph (semaphore) system in 1793 (c1870).
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Chappe's aerial telegraph system, Algeria, mid-19th century, (c1870).  Artist: Anon
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Building a Chappe telegraph station, c1793, (c1870). Artist: Anon
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Napoleon's troops defending a telegraph tower, c1815, (c1870).
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Claude Chappe (1763-1805), French engineer and inventor, c1901.
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First Chappe telegraph message from St Petersburg, early 19th century, (c1870).
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Claude Chappe (1763-1805), French engineer and inventor, c1900.
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Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (c1870).
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Sectional view of Gay-Lussac's lead chambers and absorption towers, 1870.
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Sectional view of lead chambers for large-scale production of sulphuric acid, 1870.
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Mesmer's tub, c1870.
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Paul Jablochkoff, Russian telegraph engineer, 1883.
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Alexander Glen's facsimile telegraph system, 1886
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Lesage experimenting with the first electric telegraph, Geneva, 1774 (1876).
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Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas Giles
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Caselli's pantelegraph of 1865, (c1870). Artist: Anon
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Facsimile or copying telegraph system by Amstutz of Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 1896.
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Denis Papin, French physicist, 1870.
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French physicist Denis Papin's, steamboat being wrecked, 1707 (1870).
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Elisha Gray, American inventor, presenting the caveat for his telephone, 1876, (c1890).
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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). 
Unique Identifier AR924447 
Type Image 
Purpose Public 
Size 3046px × 5734px 
Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY 
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Chappe
Claude
Claude Chappe
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eighteenth century
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Louis Figuier
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Science
Semaphore
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