Show THREE LETTERS A MINUTE that was the beat speed of the gem alphore telegraph of the days of the french revolution signal fire telegraphing c with ita its very limited scope of information contained seems to liac ha diac e been about the only means of communicating 0 quickly across distance until relatively modern times it was not until the das of the french revolution reo lution that any material improvement over the beacon fire telegraph developed three brothers named chappe devised the semaphore telegraph this got into active operation in 1794 and tha first real message ever spelled out and telegraphed across country was in that acar car and the text was as follows conde is taken from the austri an ans the same day the national convention ven tion sitting in pans paris sent back the ilia following reply to the array army the army of the north deserves the gratitude of the countr country the file semaphore operators attained a speed of three letters a minute in fine weather with an average of one a minute over long distance this made necessary the invention of condensed codes which came into fashion new york telephone liono review |