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CHAPPE, Ignace Urbain Jean (1760-1829). Histoire de la télégraphie. Paris: chez l'auteur, 1824.
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CHAPPE, Ignace Urbain Jean (1760-1829). Histoire de la télégraphie. Paris: chez l'auteur, 1824.
2 volumes, 8o. 34 folding engraved plates. 19th-century half morocco, marbled boards, initials "C. v. A." tooled in gilt on front covers.
FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF SYSTEMS OF SIGNALING AND TELEGRAPHY, written by one of the four Chappe brothers who created the Chappe optical telegraph system. This book begins with a history of telegraphy starting with the earliest signaling systems used in the ancient world. It then covers sixteenth- and seventeenth-century systems based on an alphabetic system, including the discussion of a system proposed by Becher in 1741 that would convert numbers to binary notation so that they could be expressed in the system of torch signals used by Polybius (ca. 200-118 B.C.). There is a discussion of telegraphs using sound, and of the history of maritime signaling. The second part of the book discusses the development of telegraphy in France, beginning with military telegraphs, along with systems for night use employing either lanterns or sound reverberation. The atlas of twenty-five double-page plates illustrates the different systems discussed in the text. OOC 136.
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FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY OF SYSTEMS OF SIGNALING AND TELEGRAPHY, written by one of the four Chappe brothers who created the Chappe optical telegraph system. This book begins with a history of telegraphy starting with the earliest signaling systems used in the ancient world. It then covers sixteenth- and seventeenth-century systems based on an alphabetic system, including the discussion of a system proposed by Becher in 1741 that would convert numbers to binary notation so that they could be expressed in the system of torch signals used by Polybius (ca. 200-118 B.C.). There is a discussion of telegraphs using sound, and of the history of maritime signaling. The second part of the book discusses the development of telegraphy in France, beginning with military telegraphs, along with systems for night use employing either lanterns or sound reverberation. The atlas of twenty-five double-page plates illustrates the different systems discussed in the text. OOC 136.
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