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    An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals (a form of optical...
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    Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
    systems are thus not true telegraphs. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the Chappe telegraph, an optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe...
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    bells and three-position needle telegraph instruments. In the 1840s, the electrical telegraph superseded optical telegraph systems such as semaphores, becoming...
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    Dilhac, "The Telegraph of Claude Chappe: An Optical Telecommunication Network for the XVIIIrd Century."" (PDF). "How Napoleon's semaphore telegraph changed...
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    introduction to different forms of optical communication. Visual techniques such as smoke signals, beacon fires, hydraulic telegraphs, ship flags and semaphore...
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    3 March 1791, Chappe tested an optical telegraph with a system of synchronized pendulums and a white and black optical panel between the cities of Brûlon...
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  • Telegraphy usually refers to the electrical telegraph, but telegraph systems using the optical telegraph were in use before that. A code consists of a...
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    writings. From 1838 on he joined the optical telegraph of Johann Ludwig Schmidt, who established a private telegraph line between Hamburg and Cuxhaven....
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    as optical telegraphs. However, they could only utilize a very limited range of pre-determined messages, and as with all such optical telegraphs could...
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    Flag semaphore (category Optical communications)
    the Foy-Breguet electrical telegraph, also descended from the French optical telegraph. Although based on the optical telegraph, by the time flag semaphore...
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    Chappe telegraph existed in some other countries, but no country besides France tried to duplicate the Chappe telegraph, or any other optical telegraph, as...
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    These early cables used copper wires in their cores, but modern cables use optical fiber technology to carry digital data, which includes telephone, Internet...
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  • of optical telegraphs, radio telegraph stations, or riding couriers. Early 19th century methods of this type evolved into the electrical telegraph networks...
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    third-highest escarpment. From 1789 to 1847 Child's Hill hosted an optical telegraph station. The area has long given its name to a ward of the United...
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    created by Gottfried Huth in 1796. Huth proposed an alternative to the optical telegraph of Claude Chappe in which the operators in the signaling towers would...
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    An optical fiber, or optical fibre, is a flexible glass or plastic fiber that can transmit light from one end to the other. Such fibers find wide usage...
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    Hertzian waves could be used (instead of light) in systems akin to optical telegraph: for example, Richard Threlfall and John Perry suggested that in 1890...
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    packet – Formatted unit of data carried by a packet-switched network Optical telegraph – Tower-based signaling network Pioneer plaque – Plaques on the Pioneer...
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  • to improve. A thirty meter tall optical telegraph was constructed in 1796 which connected Åland to the Swedish telegraph network. The most important function...
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  • A telegraph hill is a hill or other natural elevation that is chosen as part of an optical telegraph system. Telegraph Hill may also refer to: A high point...
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    Napoleonic Wars. The telegraph station was closed in 1814 following the end of the war, along with nearly all of the other optical telegraph stations in Denmark...
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    cable, also known as an optical-fiber cable, is an assembly similar to an electrical cable but containing one or more optical fibers that are used to...
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    Gustaf III. He is known for his experiment with the optical telegraph. He inaugurated his telegraph with a poem dedicated to the Swedish King on his birthday...
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  • plain text instead of code Optical telegraph, sending visual signals with pivoting shutters in towers Hydraulic telegraph, based on the displacement of...
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    A passive optical network (PON) is a fiber-optic telecommunications network that uses only unpowered devices to carry signals, as opposed to electronic...
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    Smoke signal (category Optical communications)
    has made skywriting possible. Polybius square Optical telegraph Ivan, Djordjevic (2010). Coding for Optical Channels. Springer US. p. 2. ISBN 978-1-4419-5569-2...
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  • order to alert defenses. As signals, beacons are an ancient form of optical telegraph and were part of a relay league. Systems of this kind have existed...
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    systems using semaphore codes and telescopes. The latter form of optical telegraph came into use in Japan, Britain, France, and Germany from the 1790s...
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    that lifted a cabin using screw mechanisms. In 1794 he created an optical telegraph for transmitting signals over distance. He assembled the famous Peacock...
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    the park of the Château de Ménilmontant. Its name comes from the optical telegraph invented by Claude Chappe (1763–1805) in 1792. This was the first...
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