Category:Signal towers

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Français : Tours à signaux (Sémaphores)

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Nederlands: Signaaltorens (Semaforen)

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semaphore line

system of visual communication

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Subclass of

communications system

Discoverer or inventor

Claude Chappe

Time of discovery or invention

1792

Authority file
Q378499 GND ID: 4172671-6
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Subcategories

This category has the following 8 subcategories, out of 8 total.

Signal towers by country (15 C)

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Chappe towers (8 C, 17 F)

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Mechanical semaphores (2 C, 40 F)

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Optical telegraphs (5 C, 74 F)
Franz August O'Etzel (1 C, 1 F)

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Media in category "Signal towers"

The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total.

Signal Tower of Gatchina Palace. Winter, 2010.jpg 1,944 × 2,592; 2.1 MB
3751 May 1 and 2 2010 119xRP - Flickr - drewj1946.jpg 1,008 × 633; 497 KB
3751 May 1 and 2 2010 153xRP - Flickr - drewj1946.jpg 1,008 × 669; 490 KB
Barbados, Karibik - Gun Hill Signal Station - panoramio.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 3.87 MB
Carlb-signalhill-nhs-stjohns-nfld-2002.jpg 640 × 525; 44 KB
Catedral de Valencia, Torre del Miguelete o Micalet, con semáforo óptico de señales. Valencia, España.jpg 4,896 × 3,672; 6.64 MB
Cell usable.JPG 789 × 488; 39 KB
Die Errichtung von Telegraphenlinien.jpg 3,500 × 3,161; 1.16 MB
Effect of shell fire (4688574720).jpg 1,000 × 763; 114 KB
Entrance to Fort Charlotte, Kingstown, St. Vincent.jpg 2,500 × 3,028; 2.64 MB
Feuerpost, - fire beacon - Aischylos - Illustration.png 600 × 277; 36 KB
Feuerpost, - fire beacon - Aischylos - Illustration.svg 600 × 277; 52 KB
Former Signal Station On Cantonment Hill.jpg 1,200 × 800; 613 KB
Fort Charlotte 2067.jpg 5,273 × 3,515; 2.65 MB
Fort Phillip c. 1841 SLNSW FL19973206.jpg 6,989 × 5,452; 8.65 MB
FortStVincent4.jpg 3,456 × 4,608; 4.63 MB
Furusund optisk telegraf.jpg 1,590 × 1,193; 414 KB
GRENADE HALL SIGNAL STATION - ST PETER - BARBADOS.jpg 1,466 × 2,250; 395 KB
Heinrich-Pistor.jpg 430 × 495; 129 KB
Historic Bickford Signals tower. READ INFO IN PANORAMIO-COMMENTS - panoramio.jpg 2,080 × 3,444; 1.51 MB
Hopferbach Funktürme - panoramio.jpg 2,816 × 2,120; 563 KB
Hopferbach Funktürme bei Simmerberg - panoramio.jpg 2,816 × 2,120; 1.44 MB
LLOYDS Signal Station The LIZARD - panoramio.jpg 2,048 × 1,536; 670 KB
Marconi wireless telegraph towers on the waterfront, Ketchikan, Alaska, circa 1907-1915 (AL+CA 7336).jpg 768 × 504; 42 KB
Mobile signal Tower.jpg 480 × 640; 103 KB
Montferrand reseau chappe.jpg 1,600 × 1,200; 260 KB
Monumento pri sparkotelegrafo.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 748 KB
Mt Nelson Signal Station.jpg 2,432 × 2,306; 416 KB
Museu Militar de Elvas.jpg 3,840 × 2,880; 2.48 MB
Opening radar-installatie Prins Bernhard te IJmuiden, Bestanddeelnr 904-8334.jpg 2,534 × 2,887; 1,020 KB
Opening radar-installatie te IJmuiden door prins Bernhard, Bestanddeelnr 904-8333.jpg 2,582 × 2,887; 1.13 MB
Optical Chappe Telegraph Marcy France.jpg 800 × 560; 130 KB
Optical telegraph 1810 drawing by Hans Gloersen, Norway, Napoleonic Wars 1810.jpg 3,047 × 3,900; 2.4 MB
Optical telegraph Fredrikstad-Oslo Signalvesenet 1804-1814.jpg 2,693 × 3,621; 2.18 MB
Optical telegraph Ålesund Museum.jpg 2,304 × 3,072; 1.65 MB
Optical telegraph.jpg 1,200 × 1,600; 93 KB
Optical telegraph01 4484.jpg 2,048 × 1,536; 421 KB
OpticalTelegraph.jpg 2,304 × 3,072; 2.36 MB
Optisen lennätinaseman perustukset ja muistolaatta Raision Kuuvavuorella.jpg 5,472 × 3,648; 7.01 MB
Ordnance Island, St. George's Town, and Fort George, Bermuda.jpg 4,608 × 3,456; 5.71 MB
Plaque Chappe.jpg 2,871 × 4,099; 2.34 MB
Prussian-optical-teleg-message.png 1,400 × 1,686; 104 KB
PSM V44 D812 Aerial telegraphy 1793.jpg 1,406 × 1,740; 500 KB
R N Signal Station at Mount Wise Devonport Plymouth.jpg 14,364 × 8,676; 9.88 MB
Radar Semaphore Installatie Hoek van Holland, Bestanddeelnr 906-6696.jpg 3,548 × 2,763; 1.4 MB
Radar Semaphore Installatie Hoek van Holland, Bestanddeelnr 906-6697.jpg 3,508 × 2,748; 1.58 MB
Rees's Cyclopaedia - Hooke's optical telegraph.png 592 × 558; 63 KB
Rees's Cyclopaedia - Richard Lovell Edgeworth's optical telegraph.png 817 × 323; 46 KB
Signal station, telephone, (...) LCCN2016821278.jpg 5,943 × 4,300; 2.19 MB
Signal tower (Mainz).jpg 3,072 × 2,304; 1.78 MB
Signal tower 31710.jpg 840 × 860; 146 KB
Signal tower and depot at the Russell yards.jpg 6,016 × 4,000; 6.38 MB
Signal Tower at Ft. Wisconsin, Va., left of lines - NARA - 524719.jpg 2,295 × 3,000; 1.4 MB
Signal tower at Pearl Harbor is removed in 1950.jpg 819 × 850; 550 KB
Signal Tower on Cobbs Hill, Appomattox River, Virginia, ca. 1897 - ca. 1897 - NARA - 533120.tif 2,410 × 3,000; 6.9 MB
Signaltowerarbroath.JPG 1,600 × 1,200; 434 KB
StateLibQld 1 102718 Signal station at Bulwer, Moreton Island, ca. 1870.jpg 1,000 × 744; 69 KB
StateLibQld 2 195783 Water tower in Goondiwindi, 1924.jpg 762 × 1,000; 115 KB
Telegrafenlinie Mainz-Metz.JPG 2,352 × 1,492; 338 KB
Telegrafenlinie metz mainz mit Legende.png 1,500 × 1,190; 570 KB
Telegrafie-ABC.jpg 2,194 × 957; 151 KB
Teleskop-pruss-opt-teleg-co.jpg 956 × 500; 279 KB
Teleskop-prussian-opt-teleg.jpg 1,048 × 354; 240 KB
The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14576483717).jpg 1,950 × 1,226; 269 KB
The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14760576774).jpg 1,948 × 1,348; 198 KB
The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14782789933).jpg 1,972 × 2,708; 555 KB
Theb2459 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 796 × 1,612; 155 KB
Theb2467 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 1,056 × 1,336; 269 KB
Theb2473 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 1,068 × 1,620; 333 KB
Theb2489 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 484 × 1,604; 360 KB
Theb2519 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 1,052 × 1,604; 274 KB
Theb2520 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 944 × 1,604; 199 KB
Theb2525 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 1,056 × 1,588; 173 KB
Theb2528 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 1,068 × 1,640; 457 KB
Theb2546 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 900 × 1,620; 147 KB
Theb2561 - Flickr - NOAA Photo Library.jpg 1,056 × 1,604; 437 KB
Tiritiri Matangi signal tower.jpg 1,600 × 1,200; 174 KB
Toy Alphabet 1 Prussian Optical Telegraph.jpg 1,200 × 797; 811 KB
Télégraphe Chappe 2.jpg 1,630 × 1,463; 1 MB
Télégraphe Chappe par Töpffer.jpg 895 × 556; 307 KB
Uniformed man in front of log cabin signal station at Richardson, Alaska, 1914 (AL+CA 4052).jpg 768 × 426; 41 KB
View from the Point of Rocks, on the Appomattox River, Va. Looking North-west. (19975054815).jpg 1,000 × 542; 492 KB
Ville melivetS.jpg 397 × 613; 94 KB
Wieża telegrafu systemu Chateau.jpg 375 × 736; 63 KB

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