Bell didn’t even build a telephone until 1875 (the patent issued in 1876). Turns out the first FAX machines didn’t work with a phone. They worked over a telegraph wire. Alexander Bain (not ...

An excerpt: The precursor to the modern fax machine was patented in 1843. Business fax technology caught on widely in the mid-1970s. So why, thirty years later, are those of us on the cutting edge ...

The first practical fax machine that saw sustained use was the ... “make alike”) device was invented in 1843 by Scotsman Alexander Bain. A clockmaker by trade, he used clock parts to ...

The first version of the fax machine was invented by the Scottish inventor and mechanic Alexander Bain in 1843. He was awarded a patent for advancements in generating and controlling electric ...

Yes, the fax machine was invented in 1843, before the Model-T was even a dream, before the telephone was invented, and even before the American Civil War broke out. Alexander Bain, a Scotsman ...

Fax machines predate the telephone ... In fact, the fax was invented in 1843, three decades before the telephone. Faxes have kept the same fundamental design and function since that time, but ...

"Not only are alternatives to fax machines now more widely available ... the first fax was made in 1843 by Alexander Baine and then was later improved successively to the point of an optical ...

Patented in 1843 and mainstreamed sometime between the ... relentlessly—long after it should be in the ground. Fax machines are everywhere: doctors' offices, delicatessens, brokerage firms ...

Let's face it: the technology hasn't changed a whole lot since Alexander Bain patented the first fax machine in 1843 (OK, they did get rid of that slimy paper). Yet, despite the growth of e-mail ...

But what is it about the fax machine that makes it the subject of ... which he patented in 1843. Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli invented the Pantelegraph, which gave birth to the first telefax ...

The technology behind the fax machine was first patented in 1843, more than three decades before Scottish inventor Alexander Bell did so with the telephone. But the rise of digital messaging ...