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Claude Chappe
Inventor
1763 – 1805
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Who was Claude Chappe?
Claude Chappe was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, making Chappe the first telecom mogul with his "mechanical internet."
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- Born
- Dec 25, 1763
Brûlon - Nationality
- France
- Education
- Lycée Pierre-Corneille
- Died
- Jan 23, 1805
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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