User:Emijrp/The Victorian Internet

The Victorian Internet: The Internet before Internet.

People

• 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.

Inventions

• Semaphore line
• Telegraph hill

Timeline

18th century

• 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

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  Transatlantic telegraph cable, 1858
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  Wired city in 1890

20th century

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  New York, 1925

Bibliography

• The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage

External links

• http://atlantic-cable.co and http://atlantic-cable.com/Maps/index.htm