Sunday, March 20, 2011

The facsimile process

Scottish inventor Alexander Bain invents the facsimile process in 1843. He devises an apparatus that is able to transmit and reproduce writing on an electrically conductive surface. He receives a British patent for “improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs.”
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