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

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

1-158-046 - Oxford Science Archive/Heritage Images

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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  1. Unknown, attributed to: :
Subject
  1. Claude Chappe: French: Inventor
Picture Type
  1. Portrait
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Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 3463x5044
File Size : 51,174kb

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  1. 006358
  1. 006358
  1. 0460000482
  1. 1-158-046
  1. 1158046
  1. 482
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