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

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).