TIL faxing was invented before the telephone
TIL faxing was invented before the telephone
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Fax - Wikipedia
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Kind of makes sense, since it was just an extension of the existing telegraph technology.
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Most people don't believe me when I say the Fax machine was invented in 1843... And no that's not a typo
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Well yeah, that's true, but also, have to bear in mind it wasn't exactly the same.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_telegraph
Lead me to read more about it. Some people used to read the news from the radio, lol.
Children read a wirelessly transmitted newspaper in 1938.
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Perhaps today you'll also learn about Hellschreiber. Old tech is really clever!
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This makes me feel old
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Yes.
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Obligatory “There was a period of time where Abraham Lincoln could have sent a fax to a Samurai” joke.
That sounds wrong, but I don't know enough about samurai's fax technology to dispute it.
It's mostly a "well, technically" kind of thing. First prototypes were around since the 1840s but the first commercial telefax service was introduced in February 1865, a little under two months before Lincoln was killed. Samurai were around until the late 1860s or early 1870s. I can't quite find when the first telefax machine was operated in Japan but 1928 shows up on some lists.
So yeah, Lincoln could have sent a fax to a samurai if they both had traveled to France just a few weeks before Lincoln's death.
Is it even a joke if it's true?
Things can be both, such as with my life
This is what the internet calls jokes now haha I don't like it either.