electric telegraph systems replaced it. Claude Chappe was born in Brûlon, Sarthe, France, the son of Ignace Chappe, a contrôleur (intendant) of the Crown lands...
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The Chappe telegraph was a French semaphore telegraph system invented by Claude Chappe in the early 1790s. The system was composed of towers placed every...
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Optical telegraph (redirect from Chappe optical telegraph)
Chappe telegraph, which was invented in France in 1792 by Claude Chappe. It was popular in the late eighteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Chappe used...
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not taken up at the time, but it was noticed by Ignace Chappe, the brother of Claude Chappe. The Chappes developed an optical land telegraph which used...
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keeper of the tower was forced to leave in 1926. Abraham Chappe (a brother of Ignace Chappe) installed a telegraph office in the tower in 1816 and operated...
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– French decipherer of the hieroglyphs and father of Egyptology Claude Chappe – French pioneer of the telegraph Gustave Charpentier – French composer...
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telescope; did important research on comets and the Orion nebula Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (1722–1769) – priest and astronomer best known for his observations...
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British soldier and polo player Claude Champy, French ceramicist Claude Chappe (1763–1805), French inventor Claude Chappuys (1500–1575), French poet Claude...
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Jessberger 16232 Chijagerbs 16234 Bosse 16236 Stebrehmer 16237 Emmakratcha 16238 Chappe 16239 Dower 16241 Dvorsky 16242 Licato 16243 Rosenbauer 16244 Brož 16245...
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