What was the name of Claude Chappe's semaphore system?
Chappe Code
Optical Telegraph
French Semaphore
Signal Tower
Answer
Claude Chappe's semaphore system was called the Optical Telegraph. It was a network of towers that used semaphore code to transmit messages over long distances.
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