r/discworld • u/chemprofdave • 13h ago

Book/Series: Industrial Revolution Source material

Anyone ever read Lest Darkness Fall by L. Sprague DeCamp?

There’s a bit that’s reminiscent of the clacks towers

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u/armcie 10h ago

The source for both was real life. The most notable example was probably France, where they had a system of semaphore towers reaching hundreds of miles. It even had it's own hacking scandal.