The first practical fax machine that saw sustained use was the ... It could transmit handwritten words and simple drawings, but was of little use beyond demonstrations at the the Great Exhibition ...

A modest fax machine costs about $1,000 ... mode for detailed graphics or ”half-tone” for photos and shaded drawings. It stores 10 phone numbers for one-touch memory dialing, plus 100 numbers ...

123rf / Not-For-Syndication The fax machine mixed incomprehensible technology ... who doodled splendid pages covered in spidery drawings and proclamations of love. The time difference meant ...

I think of the most accessible gizmos from whatever era in which he was working: fax machines, Xerox copiers, Polaroid cameras and, most recently, the iPad drawings that have dominated his output ...