Fisker

As early as 1795, Captain Lorentz Heinrich Fisker (1753-1819) had expressed his belief, in connection with a report on coastal defence, that it would be possible, in time, to create a system of coastal signals, based on new signalling methods, which would make flags completely superfluous. But it was not until 1799 that he succeeded in converting the other members of the Commission to the idea of a optical telegraph.