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In this global village, and in the era of instant messaging services and blog posts read live around the world on our mobile phones (you are being watched indeed!), let us not forget that today’s latest tools are tomorrow’s antiques!

This proof is this book of another age, by the French-German physician and inventor Auguste-Guillaume Schwenger, published just 217 years ago, in which the author presented his own variant of the Chappe telegraph, variant based on the use of the human body to form print characters observable remotely through a telescope!

That, dear readers, is what you call a communication exercise!


posted by  Benjamin at  15:02 | comments [1]


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posted by   MORE (Th.)
8 May 2017 at 18:00
Fascinating indeed, but not quite suitable for the "aveugles" !...
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