Workmen building a telegraph station to be fitted with the Chappe semaphore system c1793. From Louis Figuier 'Les Merveilles de la Science', Paris, c1870. Engraving.

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Workmen building a telegraph station to be fitted with the Chappe semaphore system c1793. From Louis Figuier 'Les Merveilles de la Science', Paris, c1870. Engraving.

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