Claude Chappe Telegraph Burnt by Mob
Claude Chappe and his brother set up telegraph at Menilmontant, Paris, but the mob suspect them of being spies and destroy their apparatus
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Picture No
10010357
Media ID
48871879
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
A Gilbert in Les martyrs de la science page 297
Date
1792
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1792 Chappe Destroy Menilmontant Optical Spies Suspect
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