Fax, short for facsimile and sometimes called telecopying or telefax, is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material, both text and images, normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The source does not give a single clean inventor and year for the fax machine in its lead, though its history section discusses Alexander Bain's early work. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Patent or First-Use Date YearYear of Alexander Bain's British patent for the Electric Printing Telegraph, the earliest fax-type device; the modern telephone-line fax machine (Xerox LDX) dates to 1964. SignificanceThe fax machine became a fixture of office communication worldwide by the 1980s and 1990s before being displaced by email and other internet-based alternatives. 1 FAQs
Did the fax machine really begin in the 1800s?
Its roots go back to Alexander Bain's 1843 British patent.
Its roots go back that far. Alexander Bain received British patent 9745 on May 27, 1843, for his Electric Printing Telegraph, which Wikipedia's history of fax discusses as early wire transmission work. Fax then remained a niche product for a long time before machines became ubiquitous in offices in the 1980s and 1990s.
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WikipediaLead section (entity-description)
Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.
History > Wire transmission, Alexander Bain paragraph
He received British patent 9745 on May 27, 1843, for his 'Electric Printing Telegraph'.
Lead section, second paragraph
Initially a niche product, fax machines became ubiquitous in offices in the 1980s and 1990s.
Introduction
Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device.
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Associated With: John Vincent Lawless Hogan, Biography, facsimile paragraphQuote, Associated With: John Vincent Lawless Hogan, Biography, facsimile paragraph
He developed a facsimile transmission system of transmitting a four-column newspaper page
Joan L. Mitchell (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Joan L. Mitchell, Career and later life, faxQuote, Associated With: Joan L. Mitchell, Career and later life, fax
data compression for fax machines
Jerome H. Lemelson (Wikipedia)
Associated With: Jerome H. Lemelson, Lead, fax machinesQuote, Associated With: Jerome H. Lemelson, Lead, fax machines
Several of his inventions relate to warehouses, industrial robots, cordless telephones, fax machines, videocassette recorders, camcorders, and the magnetic tape drive.
Alexander Bain (inventor) (Wikipedia)
Invented By: Alexander Bain, Lead sectionQuote, Invented By: Alexander Bain, Lead section
He created the first fax machine, known as Bain's facsimile.
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