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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Semaphore (section Optical telegraph)
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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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 In the 1840s, the electrical telegraph superseded optical telegraph systems such as semaphores, becoming...
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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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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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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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Submarine communications cable (redirect from Underwater telegraph cable)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Childs Hill (redirect from Telegraph Hill, Barnet)
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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Signilskär (section Optical telegraph)
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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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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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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Nakkehoved Lighthouse (section Optical telegraph)
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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Transatlantic telegraph cables were undersea cables running under the Atlantic Ocean for telegraph communications. Telegraphy is an obsolete form of communication...
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Fiber-optic cable (redirect from Optical fiber cable)
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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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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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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for a private two-needle telegraph on this line to connect it to its base in Portsmouth, finally replacing the optical telegraph. In September 1845, the...
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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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interruption of service by cutting a wire. The extent of the French optical telegraph meant that it took some time for the replacement to be completed....
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