Tour de L'ancien Télégraphe Chappe

Worth a visitb

We only got to see the outside as the museum was shut. There was some information on the outside describing what the system was all about. Definitely worth a visit if you are in the area.

Great to learn the history of Chappe's Telegraph

Small but very interesting. Definitely worth a visit, even if only seen from outside! Very close to the chateau Haut-Barr.

An optical telegraph system from the 18th century

The tower of the telegraph is just 3 minutes walk from the Haut-Barr castle ruin. The wonderful little museum was manned by a delightful couple of volunteers who were keen to explain the history of th...

des volontaires on reconstruit cette tour en 1968 et vous explique ce moyen de communication très ingénieux pour l'époque

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incontournable lost in the forest just before the castle of the Barr , hyper-called and very passionate volunteers on this means of communication

a gift for the curious

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When I read the Montecristo account, I found that there was a sign-telegraph system that existed before the Morse but I couldn't represent it completely ... and well ...