Claude Chappe (nonfiction)

Claude Chappe.

Claude Chappe (December 25, 1763 – January 23, 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, making Chappe the first telecom mogul with his "mechanical internet."

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Mathematics

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Semaphore telegraph (nonfiction)

External links:

• Claude Chappe @ Wikipedia

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