Telegrafia optica in Catalonia. State of the question

Authors

  • Antonio Aguilar Pérez
  • Gaspar Martínez Lorente

Keywords:

telegrafia optica, carlistas wars, telecommunications

Abstract

In XIX Spain, fast communications were necessary to consolidate the new liberal State in all of the territory. For that reason, in the middle of the century an ambitious improvement in the road network and the construction of a optical network of telegraph started up. In Catalonia, the War "dels matiners" (1847-1849) accelerated the installation of this network before the war of "guerrilla" waged by the Carlistas troops. This article tries to explain how the optical network of telegraph in Catalonia was constructed. Forming a mesh includiing most of its territory, showing by means of a card (consisting of photos and data relative to its location), the present state of conservation of the located towers of optico telegraph to date in Catalonia.

Published

2007-02-23

Issue

Section

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