The birth of a fax in 1843
Fax is alive. And he still plays a huge role in the Japanese business . I was interested in the question: when did this miracle of technology come about? And not when it became a necessary, integral part of our life (read, it was commercialized), but when the first picture could be transferred to a distance without the help of a person in fast boots, pigeons or other means of communication.
When would you think it happened? No, not at the beginning of the twentieth century. And in the 1840s.
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Alexander Bane was one of 13 children, was born in the family of a shepherd, and so on - all this can be found on Wikipedia . Two of his inventions are important to us: an electric clock (the first patented) and a fax machine based on them. In the electric clock was a pendulum, working, as you might guess, from electricity. This is important information to describe the fax.
1945 electric clock. Made long before you get on your wrist .
What you need to transfer pictures? Scan it, send data, get data and capture the image. In the case of Bain's fax, two pendulums were scanned and “sketched” line by line.
A little more detail:
“The pendulum of the sending apparatus moved along the image engraved on the copper, and when it touched the lines, electrical contact appeared.
- The pendulum of the receiving apparatus, synchronized with the first pendulum, the stylus wrote on a paper soaked in potassium iodide that changes color when current passes.
Even more clearly - here's a fax from humans.
In May 1843, Bane received a patent number 9745 for the Electric Printing Telegraph. Improving the system, in 1845, the inventor received another patent - â„–10838.
Improved version of the Bane fax machine, 1850.
The transferred picture was not perfect, but the losses were minor.
The first commercial telefax was introduced by the Italian physicist Giovanni Kaselli in 1865, just 11 years after the creation of the telephone. But that's another story.
When would you think it happened? No, not at the beginning of the twentieth century. And in the 1840s.
')
Alexander Bane was one of 13 children, was born in the family of a shepherd, and so on - all this can be found on Wikipedia . Two of his inventions are important to us: an electric clock (the first patented) and a fax machine based on them. In the electric clock was a pendulum, working, as you might guess, from electricity. This is important information to describe the fax.
1945 electric clock. Made long before you get on your wrist .
What you need to transfer pictures? Scan it, send data, get data and capture the image. In the case of Bain's fax, two pendulums were scanned and “sketched” line by line.
A little more detail:
“The pendulum of the sending apparatus moved along the image engraved on the copper, and when it touched the lines, electrical contact appeared.
- The pendulum of the receiving apparatus, synchronized with the first pendulum, the stylus wrote on a paper soaked in potassium iodide that changes color when current passes.
Even more clearly - here's a fax from humans.
In May 1843, Bane received a patent number 9745 for the Electric Printing Telegraph. Improving the system, in 1845, the inventor received another patent - â„–10838.
Improved version of the Bane fax machine, 1850.
The transferred picture was not perfect, but the losses were minor.
The first commercial telefax was introduced by the Italian physicist Giovanni Kaselli in 1865, just 11 years after the creation of the telephone. But that's another story.
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