Napoleonic semaphore was the world's first telegraph network, allowing messages to be sent the length of 18th Century France in mere hours. Now a group of enthusiastic amateurs are reviving the ...

Napoleonic semaphore was the world's first ... Not for the first time or for the last, at the end of the 18th Century France made an important technological advance - only to see it overtaken ...

Napoleonic semaphore was the world's first telegraph network, allowing messages to be sent the length of 18th Century France in mere hours. Now a group of enthusiastic amateurs are reviving the ...