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June 20, 2022

Claude Chappe and the Napoleon Telegraph

Filed under: France, History, Technology — Tags: , , — Nicholas @ 02:00

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Published 2 Mar 2022

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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2 Comments

  1. These devices, and the follow-on (Morse), are described in the excellent book “The Information” by James Gleick. Not a light read, but fascinating.

    Comment by Bob — June 20, 2022 @ 11:31

  2. I first heard of them in a Hornblower novel by C.S. Forester. As a kid, I assumed he made up the notion of a “telegraph” on the French coast that Hornblower attacks, because I “knew” that the telegraph wasn’t invented until much later in the 19th century.

    Comment by Nicholas — June 20, 2022 @ 12:19

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