Author: HOWARD MALLINSON
Title: Send it by Semaphore
Description: Crowood, 2005. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 240. "The old visual telegraphs, which used giant semaphore indicators on a series of highly conspicuous sites, each visible from the next, were developed in France during the French Revolution. For the first time in history news of victories could be sent by an army in the field back to the capital in minutes, compared with the hours or days it would take by horse. The signaling technology was soon copied by the British, who set up telegraph routes extending from London to the great sea ports - Portsmouth, Deal, Yarmouth, and Plymouth - for transmitting messages to and from the British fleet, then engaged in the war against Napoleon's France. The fascinating story told in Send it by Semaphore follows the history of the telegraph on both sides of the English Channel and examines it in the context of the war that dominated the period. The stories are told of how the greatest news stories of a lifetime - the Nile, Trafalgar and Waterloo - arrived in England, and it becomes clear how important this innovation, which presaged the electric telegraph, the telephone and the internet, really was at a time when Britain's liberty was gravely threatened"-Jacket. ISBN: 9781861267344. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781861267344
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Title: Send it by Semaphore
Description: Crowood, 2005. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 240. "The old visual telegraphs, which used giant semaphore indicators on a series of highly conspicuous sites, each visible from the next, were developed in France during the French Revolution. For the first time in history news of victories could be sent by an army in the field back to the capital in minutes, compared with the hours or days it would take by horse. The signaling technology was soon copied by the British, who set up telegraph routes extending from London to the great sea ports - Portsmouth, Deal, Yarmouth, and Plymouth - for transmitting messages to and from the British fleet, then engaged in the war against Napoleon's France. The fascinating story told in Send it by Semaphore follows the history of the telegraph on both sides of the English Channel and examines it in the context of the war that dominated the period. The stories are told of how the greatest news stories of a lifetime - the Nile, Trafalgar and Waterloo - arrived in England, and it becomes clear how important this innovation, which presaged the electric telegraph, the telephone and the internet, really was at a time when Britain's liberty was gravely threatened"-Jacket. ISBN: 9781861267344. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9781861267344
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 1759940
- Book number: 1759940
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