Aerial Telegraph (Semaphore). Artist's impression of Claude Chappe (1763-1895), French engineer and inventor, demonstrating his telegraph system. Widely used, particularly in France and her colonies, until about 1850. From 'Le Petit Journal', Paris, 1901

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