Napoleonic semaphore was the worlds first telegraph network, carrying messages across 18th Century France faster than ever before. Now a group of enthusiastic amateurs are reviving the ingenious system.Before the web, before the computer, before the phone, even before Morse code, there was le systeme Chappe.
via BBC News – How Napoleons semaphore telegraph changed the world.
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