Claude Chappe

Claude Chappe
1763 - 1805
Claude Chappe  French Inventor
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First Name Claude
Last Name Chappe
Birthday 25th December, 1763
Birthplace Brûlon, Sarthe
Died 23rd January, 1805
Place of Death Paris, France
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Nationality French
Occupation Text Engineer
Occupation Inventor

Claude Chappe (25 December 1763 – 23 January 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system consisted of a series of towers, each within line of sight of others, each supporting a wooden mast with two crossarms on pivots that could be placed in various positions. The operator in a tower moved the arms to a sequence of positions, spelling out text messages in semaphore code. The operator in the next tower read the message through a telescope, then passed it on to the next tower. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, and was used until the 1850s when electric telegraph systems replaced it.

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