History of internet fax-email fax

History of Internet Fax.

History of Fax It has been said that the means of sending messages from one location to another started with smoke and drum signals.

To fax or faxing is by definition "a method of encoding data, transmitting it over a telephone line or radio broadcast, and receiving a hard copy of the text, line drawings, or photographs at a remote location.

The technology for fax machines was invented a long time, however, fax machines did not become popular with consumers until the 1980s.

The first fax machine was invented by Scottish mechanic and inventor Alexander Bain. In 1843, Alexander Bain received a British patent for “improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs”, in laymen's terms a fax machine.

The concept or idea still forms the basis of our fax machines. He used electric clock pendulums to create a back-and-forth line scanning mechanism.

Many inventors after Alexander Bain, worked hard on inventing and improving fax machine type devices.

* In 1850, a London inventor named F. C. Blakewell received a patent what he called a "copying telegraph".

* In 1860, a fax machine called the Pantelegraph sent the first fax between Paris and Lyon. The Pantelegraph was invented Giovanni Caselli.

* In 1895, Ernest Hummel a watchmaker from St. Paul, Minnesota invented his competing device called the Telediagraph.

* In 1902, Dr Arthur Korn invented an improved and practical fax, the photoelectric system.

* In 1914, Edouard Belin established the concept of the remote fax for photo and news reporting.

* In 1924 (Richard H. Ranger) invented a wireless facsimile using radio. The first transoceanic radio fax was a picture of President Calvin Coolidge sent to London from New York on Nov.29th,1924.

* By 1926, RCA invented the Radiophoto that faxed by using radio broadcasting technology.

* In 1947, Alexander Muirhead invented a very successful fax machine.

* On March 4, 1955, the first radio fax transmission was sent across the continent.

In 1985, the first computer fax board was created by Dr. Hank Magnuski, it was called the GammaFax.
Email Fax:- On June 24, 1997 - PSINet, the first commercial ISP introduced InternetPaper(SM) a service that sent documents from your desktop PC to any fax machine on the planet through the Internet.

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