TOUR DU TELEGRAPHE CHAPPE

Rare remains of the Toulouse-Bordeaux "Chappe" line.

In this tower, from 1834 to 1853, lived a stationary person in charge of reading the signals transmitted by the towers of Thil or Cornebarrieu with the help of a Galileo telescope, and to forward them...
The transmission was carried out by the Chappe optical system. Invented by Claude Chappe in 1792, this ingenious mechanism of articulated arms located at the top of the tower, indicated coded signs whose meaning was understood only by the sender and the recipient... after translation. This tower is located in the Bouconne Forest Leisure Centre, between Toulouse and Auch

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