The Victorian Internet: The Internet before Internet.
People edit
- Claude Chappe
- Jean-Antoine Nollet: French scientist who did an electrical experiment with a battery, giving an electric shock to a line of two hundred monks. He saw that electricity moves instantly.
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18th century edit
- 1790s: Claude Chappe, French inventor, built several telecommunications systems, using sound and visible signals. The most succesfull was a semaphore system, later used as a communication system in all France and other European countries.
- March 2, 1791, 11 a.m.: Chappe and his brother send a message between a castle in Brûlon and a house in Parcé, ten miles away. "SI VOUS RÉUSSISSEZ, VOUS SEREZ BIENTÔT COUVERT THE GLOIRE" (IF YOU SUCCEED, YOU WILL SOON BASK IN GLORY).
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Chappe semaphore
19th century edit
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Wired city in 1890
20th century edit
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New York, 1925
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