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Illustration showing Robert Hooke's proposed system. At top are various symbols that might be used; ABCE indicates the frame, and D the screen behind which each of the symbols are hidden when not in use.
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English: Fig. 1 and 2 from the plate on "Telegraph" in Rees's Cyclopædia, illustrating Robert Hooke's proposal for an optical telegraph system. For further explanatory text, see entry on "TELEGRAPH", volume 35 of the Cyclopædia. |
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| Date | 1802-1820 (serial publication of the source work) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source | Rees's Cyclopædia, Plates Vol. IV, "TELEGRAPH", Fig. 1 and 2; from a digital scan at https://archive.org/details/cyclopaediaplates04rees | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This is a retouched picture, which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version. Modifications: Cropped, adjusted levels, removed "fig. 1" and "fig. 2", various paper stains and blemishes and digital artifacts, grayscaled. Modifications made by Morgan Riley. The original can be found here: https://archive.org/stream/cyclopaediaplates04rees#page/n325/mode/2up.
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