Visit of the Chappe telegraph

Name: Visit of the Chappe telegraph
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Telegraphe de Chappe

Discover the world’s first telecommunications system and understand how it works with a guided tour.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entrance/ guided tours offered every hour.

Simon BOURCIER

Invented by Claude Chappe at the time of the French Revolution, Chappe’s telegraph is the world’s first telecommuniaction system. Located on the Paris-Brest line, the Saint-Marcan telegraph is the only one to have been rehabilitated in Brittany.
You can discover its history, understand its mechanism and see it in operation during the guided tours offered every hour during this weekend of the European Heritage Days.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

About the location

Telegraphe de Chappe

le Télégraphe, Lieu-dit La Masse, 35120 Saint-Marcan

Ille-et-Vilaine
Bretagne

"Since 2005, a museum, installed in the former dwelling house of the telegraphic agent, presents this story through illustrated panels, models and playful bollards. A significant step forward in the history of telecommunications, its history remains fascinating: a family history, an instrument of power, a coded and confidential system. Used for more than half a century, however, aerial telegraphy has a number of constraints; it is then replaced by electric telegraphy, which ushers in a new era in the history of telecommunications. '