Claude Chappe, 1763 – 1805. French inventor, seen here demonstrating his first aerial telegraph system in 1791.

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Claude Chappe, 1763 – 1805. French inventor, seen here demonstrating his first aerial telegraph system in 1791. From Les Merveilles de la Science, published

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