Claude Chappe (December 25 1763 – January 23 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age making Chappe the first telecom mogul with his mechanical internet.
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