5 Apr
2001
5 Apr
'01
12:12 a.m.
Thank You John!~
If you or anyone else has any sources of this kind of info, Please pass
it along!
Bill Claussen
elecdata1
John Allain wrote:
I'd be
interested in seeing the article. I've repaired many fax
machines and was unaware that they have been around for this long!
OK, this one's a 1907 prototype But! it's for continuous tone images.
The process is called "Belin Telephotography" and it resembles the
machine in "Bullitt" mentioned earlier, but as a proto.
The dual pendulums thing I think I saw in one of the James Burke,
er, programmes.
See: http://www.panix.com/~allain/belin/
(warning: cut rate contrast matching)
If someone wants to OCR this, I'll incorporate it.
John A.