Claude Chappe
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title:
Claude Chappe
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Claude Chappe was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system consisted of a series of towers, each within line of sight of others, each supporting a wooden mast with two crossarms on pivots that could be placed in various positions. The operator in a tower moved the arms to a sequence of positions, spelling out text messages in semaphore code. The operator in the next tower read the message through a telescope, then p
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Late 18th-century French inventor
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Chappe
date created:
2002-12-31T08:19:55Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T12:18:26Z
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