- Built With Processing: Semaphore
Java applet which acts as a handy translator for anyone who wants to send a message in semaphore without memorizing it.
www.wxs.ca/applets/semaphore
- Chappe Telegraph Systems
Discusses Claude Chappe d'Auteroche's 18th century optical telegraph that used semaphore to communicate.
people.seas.harvard.edu/~jones/cscie129/images/history/chappe.html
- Origin of the Railway Semaphore
Examines how railway signals and semaphore evolved from the optical telegraph.
www.du.edu/~jcalvert/railway/semaphor/semhist.htm
- San Jose Semaphore
Permanent public artwork by Ben Rubin, commissioned by Adobe Systems, and displaying a coded message in semaphore on top of the Adobe office skyscraper in downtown San Jose, CA.
www.sanjosesemaphore.com
- Semaphore Flag Signalling System
Alphabet signalling system based on the waving of a pair of hand-held flags in a particular pattern.
www.anbg.gov.au/flags/semaphore.html
- Wikipedia: Semaphore
The semaphore or optical telegraph is an apparatus for conveying information by means of visual signals, with towers with pivoting blades or paddles, shutters, in a matrix, or hand-held flags.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore
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