12 Jun
2000
12 Jun
'00
2:19 p.m.
Bain's machine was dated 1842, commercial service began at Paris, 1863.
I think NYU law school has some interesting bits on the early fax service.
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, William Donzelli wrote:
As far as I know, the first facsimile machine was invented in around 1826
(there was a nice little article about it in the back of Success magazine
[of all places] over a year ago).
Napolean supposedly deployed them all around Europe so that he could
distribute intelligence and battle plans fast and efficiently.
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I was
aware that Toshiba was building facsimile machines in 1928
in Japan, but I didn't know the ability to send an image to a remote
location predated the deployment of electricity.
It may have been the very early 1800s, but such machines do exist.
Pentelegraph (sp?) is one of them.