Claude Chappe (1763-1805), French engineer and inventor, c1901. Artist: Unknown

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Claude Chappe (1763-1805), French engineer and inventor, c1901. An artist's impression of Chappe demonstrating his aerial telegraph semaphore system, widely used particularly in France and its colonies until c1950. From Le Petit Journal, a Paris newspaper, 1901.

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