12 Jun
2000
12 Jun
'00
10:13 a.m.
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.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org