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Facsimile transmission over
wires or faxing was invented by Alexander Bain, a Scottish
mechanic who in 1843 received a British patent for “improvements
in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in
timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs.”
Seven years earlier, Samuel Morse invented the telegraph and the
fax machine evolved from the telegraph technology.
Alexander Bain had created a fax
machine transmitter that was designed to scan a flat surface (made
of metal) using a stylus mounted on a pendulum and the stylus
picked up the images on the surface. An amateur clock maker,
Alexander Bain adapted parts from clock mechanisms combined with
telegraph technology to invent his fax machine.
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