The global corporation Xerox is credited for inventing the first modern fax machine, the LDX System, on May 5th, 1964. It was constructed in the company’s research center based in Webster, NY.

Scottish inventor Alexander Bain received a U.S. patent for a chemical-mechanical facsimile machine in 1849, and as the BBC News notes, he is widely credited with inventing the precursor to the modern ...

Certainly, fax has a long history—probably longer than most people could imagine. When Alexander Bain invented the first fax machine in the 1840s, it was used to scan images—both photographs ...