File:'View of the Telegraph erected on the Admiralty Office, Charing Cross in Feby 1796' RMG PY2206.tiff
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S. W. Fores |
| Description |
English: 'View of the Telegraph erected on the Admiralty Office, Charing Cross in Feby 1796' Text in English within plate. The print dates from the year that the Revd Lord George Murray designed the original arrangement, although telegraph or semaphore signals were also developed in France as well as England in the last years of the 18th century. Murray’s system was known as the shutter telegraph and comprised a vertical board with six large holes in its face each of which could be opened, to display the sky or a light, or closed (see MDL0020). Depending on the lie of the land distances between stations varied and were sometimes as much as eight miles apart. Four lines were set up from the Admiralty to Portsmouth, Plymouth, Deal and Yarmouth. According to the inscription beneath the title this print is based on a drawing ‘By an officer on Duty’. |
| Date | Published 26 March 1796 |
| Dimensions | Sheet: 528 x 400 mm; Mount: 559 mm x 406 mm |
| Notes | Box Title: Seaports and Views. G25 London. |
| Source/Photographer | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/142153 |
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
The original artefact or artwork has been assessed as public domain by age, and faithful reproductions of the two dimensional work are also public domain. No permission is required for reuse for any purpose. The text of this image record has been derived from the Royal Museums Greenwich catalogue and image metadata. Individual data and facts such as date, author and title are not copyrightable, but reuse of longer descriptive text from the catalogue may not be considered fair use. Reuse of the text must be attributed to the "National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London" and a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-SA-3.0 license may apply if not rewritten. Refer to Royal Museums Greenwich copyright. |
| Identifier | Times Gazetteer Grid Reference Number, Prints & Drawings: G 25 (25f) id number: PAH2206 |
| Collection | Fine art |
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