Despite the availability of advanced modern day technologies for transferring documents worldwide, the fax machine, a technology developed way back in 1843, continues to persist in homes and offices even today. Considering the fact that this technology is more than a century old, it should have already joined the telegraphs and pagers in antique shops by now. Surprisingly however, instead of going obsolete, fax machines have continued to evolve, adapt and conform to the requirements of modern telecommunications. The fax machine had already made its mark as an office workhorse back in the 1980s, and has continued to appear on business cards ever since! Although threatened by far more advanced and preferable technologies like scanners, printers and email, the fax machine continues to dodge extinction by evolving constantly and remaining popular.
Fax Machine’s Share in the History of Communications
Alexander Bain, a Scottish mechanic, invented the fax machine or ‘facsimile’ in 1843 in Britain. Bain patented this technology in 1843. Bain’s fax machine used a stylus attached to a pendulum that scanned an image or text on a metal surface. The machine used by Bain was a combination of several clock parts that worked in sync with a telegraph machine. The fax machine transferred encoded image data via telegraph lines.
Evolution of the Facsimile
The earliest fax machine used telegraph lines to transmit data. This machine however did not gain significant ground at the time of its inception, and people soon abandoned it due to its bulky size and limited utility. The invention of the telephone revived the use of fax machines again, which then used telephone lines for data transmission. Later on, these machines could also transmit data ...
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