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Chappe (other)
Chappe may refer to: * Claude Chappe (1763 – 1805), French inventor * David Chappe (1947 - 2002), American screenwriter * Georges Chappe (b. 1944), French cyclist * Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (1722-1769), French astronomer * Chappe (crater), lunar crater * 16238 Chappe, main belt asteroid * a flap of leather attached to a sword's crossguard, also known as a rain-guard See also * Chap (other) Chap may refer to: * Chap (instrument), a Southeast Asian percussion instrument *Chap Petersen (born 1968), American politician and Virginia state senator * Chap, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community *''The Chap'', a British magazi ... * Chappes (other) {{disambig, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Chappe
Claude Chappe (; 25 December 1763 – 23 January 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system consisted of a series of towers, each within line of sight of others, each supporting a wooden mast with two crossarms on pivots that could be placed in various positions. The operator in a tower moved the arms to a sequence of positions, spelling out text messages in semaphore code. The operator in the next tower read the message through a telescope, then passed it on to the next tower. This was the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age, and was used until the 1850s when electric telegraph systems replaced it. Life Claude Chappe was born in Brûlon, Sarthe, France, the son of Ignace Chappe, a ''contrôleur'' ( intendant) of the Crown lands for Laval, and his wife Marie Devernay, daughter of a physician of Laval. He was raised for church service, but lost his sinecure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Chappe
David Chappe (November 8, 1947, in Brooklyn – May 13, 2002, in Los Angeles) was best known as the screenwriter who launched the bidding wars of the late 1980s with his script ''Gale Force''. David was a novelist, photographer, screenwriting instructor, story editor, artist and pianist. Personal life Chappe was born in Flatbush, New York and moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, at age eight. He competed as a concert pianist from ages six to 16 and led canoe trips in the Canadian wilderness of the Boundary Waters. He earned his BA in History and Political Science from Alfred University, and his Master of Fine Arts from Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York, in 1978. He learned to tell stories through sequencing of photographic images and later used that visual story sense in writing screenplays. While at VSW Chappe printed dozens of small publications on their Heidelberg Press and moved to Los Angeles in 1980 to work for another small press. Chappe died in 2002 after a four-y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Chappe
Georges Chappe (born 5 March 1944) is a retired cyclist from France, who was nicknamed ''Jojo'' during his professional career. He was a professional from 1965 to 1975. In 1970 he won the Critérium International. In 1968, Chappe won a stage in the Tour de France, but in 1971 he was the lanterne rouge. He also competed in the team time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1963 :World amateur championship team time trial (100km) (with Michel Bechet, Marcel-Ernest Bidault and Dominique Motte) ;1965 :Promotion Pernod :Sanvignes :Plonéour-Lavern ;1967 :Paris–Camembert ;1968 :Tour de France: ::Winner stage 4 ;1969 :Grand-Bourg ;1970 :Critérium International :GP Petit Varois :Paris–Camembert Paris–Camembert (also Paris–Camembert Trophée Lepetit or Paris–Camembert Lepetit) is a semi classic held annually in April. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The route of the race has varied over t ... ;1972 :Lamballe :Vai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Chappe D'Auteroche
Jean-Baptiste Chappe d'Auteroche (23 March 1722 – 1 August 1769) was a French astronomer, best known for his observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769. Early life Little is known of Chappe's early life. He was born into a distinguished family holding administrative posts and coming from Auvergne, a region of central France. He entered the priesthood, probably as a Jesuit, and devoted himself to the study of astronomy. He was appointed assistant astronomer at the Royal Observatory and admitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences on 14 January 1759. Distance from the Earth to the Sun In the mid-18th century, the dynamics of the Solar System were reasonably well understood, but astronomers only had an approximate idea of its scale. If the distance between two planets could be measured, all the other distances would be known from Kepler's laws of planetary motion. The best candidate for an accurate measurement was the distance between the Earth and Venus, which could ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chappe (crater)
Chappe is a lunar impact crater that lies along the southwestern limb of the Moon. It is nearly attached to the northern limb of the walled plain Hausen, and an equal distance from the crater Pilâtre. To the north-northwest is Blanchard. This crater lies along the outer rampart of the much larger Hausen, and is surrounded by uneven, hummocky terrain. The rim is roughly circular, with a small crater lying along the eastern edge. The inner walls and interior floor are uneven, particularly in the western half. This crater was originally designated Hausen A before being assigned its current name by the IAU in 1994. Chappe lies to the south of the Mendel-Rydberg Basin The Mendel-Ryberg Basin is a Nectarian impact basin on the southwestern limb of the moon. It is named after the crater Mendel on the west margin and the smaller crater Rydberg north of the center of the basin. The basin is due south of the la ..., a 630 km wide impact basin of Nectarian age. References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
16238 Chappe
Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * '' Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film directed by Carlos Hugo Christensen * ''Sixteen'' (2013 Indian film), a 2013 Hindi film * ''Sixteen'' (2013 British film), a 2013 British film by director Rob Brown Music *The Sixteen, an English choir *16 (band), a sludge metal band * Sixteen (Polish band), a Polish band Albums * ''16'' (Robin album), a 2014 album by Robin * 16 (Madhouse album), a 1987 album by Madhouse * ''Sixteen'' (album), a 1983 album by Stacy Lattisaw *''Sixteen'' , a 2005 album by Shook Ones * ''16'', a 2020 album by Wejdene Songs * "16" (Sneaky Sound System song), 2009 * "Sixteen" (Thomas Rhett song), 2017 * "Sixteen" (Ellie Goulding song), 2019 *"16", by Craig David from ''Following My Intuition'', 2016 *"16", by Green Day from ''39/Smooth'', 1990 *"16", by H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rain-guard
A rain-guard or chappe is a piece of leather fitted to the crossguard of European swords of the later medieval period. The purpose of this leather is not entirely clear, but it seems to have originated as a part of the scabbard, functioning as a lid when the sword was in the scabbard. The rain-guard presumably originated in the 13th century but did not become universal until the 14th. Oakeshott (1960) is aware of one preserved specimen of c. 1250. The feature was ubiquitous throughout the 15th century and into the early 16th century, but they seem to fall out of use later in the 16th century. The main problem in researching the development of this feature is the fact that it is lost to decomposition in all swords recovered archaeologically. A few originals have survived from the late medieval period; otherwise, research is largely based on depictions in paintings or etchings (e.g. well represented in works by Albrecht Dürer) and effigies (a detailed specimen is shown in the eff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chap (other)
Chap may refer to: * Chap (instrument), a Southeast Asian percussion instrument *Chap Petersen (born 1968), American politician and Virginia state senator * Chap, Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community *''The Chap'', a British magazine * The Chap (band), an experimental pop band from North London *Chap, a caste in the Bhakkar district of the Punjab, Pakistan CHAP may stand for: * Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol, a computer networking authentication system * Combined Heat And Power, cogeneration, the use of a heat engine or a power station to simultaneously generate both electricity and useful heat * Comprehensive Health Assessment Program, a tool used for keeping medical histories of people with intellectual disabilities * Community Health Accreditation Program, an independent, US not-for-profit accrediting body for health care organizations * CHAP-FM, a rebroadcaster of CHYC-FM CHYC-FM is a Canadian radio station, which broadcasts at 98.9 FM in Sudb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
