Claude Chappe and the Napoleon Telegraph
Claude Chappe and the Napoleon Telegraph
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
The development of technology for speedy long-distance communication dates back to antiquity, and reached its pre-electronic peak in the telegraph before Samuel Morse’s telegraph. Before wires crossed the world, Napoleonic France could send a message from Paris to Lille, a distance of some 250 kilometers, in ten minutes.
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