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Subject: Re: What hath God wrought?


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Chris M
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Date Posted: 06:18:23 06/20/13 Thu
In reply to: Wes 's message, "What hath God wrought?" on 14:15:11 06/19/13 Wed

Predating the electric telegraph by nearly 50 years, the French had a semaphore telegraph system. There was an interesting article about it on the BBC News website the other day.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22909590

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Wes
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Date Posted: 09:19:41 06/20/13 Thu

Right, that was one of the "few exceptions" I had in mind at the beginning of the piece, but I didn't want to get into the details since the essay was going in a different direction.

Interesting article. I knew a little about that system, but not much. I think I first came across a reference to it in a C. S. Forester novel.

-- Wes

>Predating the electric telegraph by nearly 50 years,
>the French had a semaphore telegraph system. There was
>an interesting article about it on the BBC News
>website the other day.
>
> >href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22909590">http
>://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22909590

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Author:
ralph058
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Date Posted: 09:42:12 06/20/13 Thu

Years ago, I saw a movie about it on TV
>Predating the electric telegraph by nearly 50 years,
>the French had a semaphore telegraph system. There was
>an interesting article about it on the BBC News
>website the other day.
>
> >href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22909590">http
>://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22909590


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