The history of the fax machine goes back over 160 years. Alexander Bain is credited with inventing the first fax machine patented in England in 1843. “Bains Telgraph” was simply two pens attached to pendulums connected by a telegraph wire. The pendulums passed over chemically treated paper and made stains when an electrical charge was […]
THROWBACK THURSDAY: History of Fax
(from Fax Authority) “Fax,” a short form of the word facsimile, has evolved through a number of versions to be a definition of an image (often an image of a document) sent over a phone network. While the technology peaked in use from the late 1980s to the mid 2000s, it might surprise you to […]