How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926)
How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926)
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Fax, predating the telephone by about 7 years.
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This link from the mastodon poster has a sample of what the images looked like. http://www.hffax.de/history/html/bartlane.html
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Thanks, I was wondering about the resolution. Better than I expected, those dots are quite tiny!
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Mechanically encoded to paper tape, then electronically transmitted via undersea cable, then reversed on the other end for printing. Complex!
The alpha phase of the Internet.