- Tytuł:
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Wieże telegrafu optycznego w krajobrazie Francji
Optical telegraph towers in the French landscape - Autorzy:
- Herkt-Knapp, D.
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1186085.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2004
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Przyrodniczy we Wrocławiu
- Tematy:
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telegraf optyczny
wieża
krajobraz
Francja
optical telegraph
tower
landscape
French - Opis:
- Long distance information transfer was known already since ancient times. People were always trying to improve the transfer going farther and faster. Some methods were based on smoke or light signals, other methods used horses or couriers carrying post for special fee. Considerable improvement in an information transfer came in 18th century when Claude Chappe invented and patented the optical telegraph system. It was a visual communication network based on towers equipped with so called semaphores. Very quickly this invention gained an acknowledgement of the French government. In the beginning of 19th century, 29 largest towns gained permanent telegraphic link to Paris. Around 50 years later, the optical telegraph system of C. Chappe was replaced by technically more advanced and easier to use electrical telegraph. Monumental towers of optical telegraph lost their prestigious place in the landscape with the time. Technical and technological development only helped their destruction. Somebody might not know that the optical telegraph system of Chappe brothers was the first well organized communication network.
- Źródło:
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Architektura Krajobrazu; 2004, 1-2; 30-35
1641-5159 - Pojawia się w:
- Architektura Krajobrazu
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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