Signal mirror and a booklet with Morse code and flag semaphores?

There's a lot of history there with heliographs and heliotropes, and the myriad system of semaphores (i.e. Chappe). They are the big brothers to today's signal mirrors and flags.

http://www.prc68.com/I/MkVHeliograph.shtml
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