Wieże telegrafu optycznego w krajobrazie Francji

• Autorzy: Herkt-Knapp D.

Warianty tytułu

EN

Optical telegraph towers in the French landscape

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

EN

Long distance information transfer was known already since ancient times. People were always trying to improve the transfer going farther and faster. Some methods were based on smoke or light signals, other methods used horses or couriers carrying post for special fee. Considerable improvement in an information transfer came in 18th century when Claude Chappe invented and patented the optical telegraph system. It was a visual communication network based on towers equipped with so called semaphores. Very quickly this invention gained an acknowledgement of the French government. In the beginning of 19th century, 29 largest towns gained permanent telegraphic link to Paris. Around 50 years later, the optical telegraph system of C. Chappe was replaced by technically more advanced and easier to use electrical telegraph. Monumental towers of optical telegraph lost their prestigious place in the landscape with the time. Technical and technological development only helped their destruction. Somebody might not know that the optical telegraph system of Chappe brothers was the first well organized communication network.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

telegraf optyczny; wieża; krajobraz; Francja

EN

optical telegraph; tower; landscape; French

• Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Przyrodniczego we Wrocławiu
• Czasopismo: Architektura Krajobrazu
• Rocznik: 2004
• Tom: nr 1-2
• Strony: 30--35
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 5 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Herkt-Knapp D.

• Doktorantka na Wydziale Architektury, Politechnika Wrocławska

Bibliografia

• 1. Borcz Z., Polskie poczty, Wrocław 1992.
• 2. Holzmann G., The ties that bound, Boston 1995.
• 3. Paulian L., La poste aux lettres, Paris 1898.
• 4. Philipp K., Zarys historii poczty, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem historii poczty polskiej, Bydgoszcz 1927.
• 5. Kronika techniki, Warszawa 1992.