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Show The Original Telegraph. Claude Chappe, who diownod him self In a well on January 3 a htm dred jenrs ago, was deseilbeil In his time as "the Inventor of tho telegraph," tele-graph," Kn.ts Hie Umdon Telegraph. It was not Hie elecltle telegraph that wo know, of ciuiise, but a vetj ptlm-lllve ptlm-lllve wlicless contthauce, n seiim-phoie. seiim-phoie. In fact, consisting of an upright up-right post, a transverse bar on the top and two aims wotkltig on pivots nt the ends of this bar Il mentis of a code nnd the placing ol a series of these posts to that each could be seen fiom the next, messages were carried over Jlfl leagues In u 0,11111 let of nn hour The French legislstlve assembly ndopled the sjslem; but In-MnttatloUH In-MnttatloUH that Chappe had stolen It from others preed upon his mind nnd drove hint to suicide. |
