The first extensive telegraph network was the visual telegraph. In 1791 the Frenchman Claude Chappe used a visual network (which consisted of a telescope, a clock, a codebook, and black and white panels) to send a message ten miles.
Page Content. The School Performance Profile provides the public with a comprehensive overview of student academic performance in every Pennsylvania public school building, including traditional public schools, charter schools, cyber charter schools and career and technology centers.
The 1993 National Performance Review was designed to make the federal government more efficient, accountable, and effective. Vice President Al Gore led in the effort to reinvent government. By the end of 1999, the effort had produced a savings of $136 billion dollars.