Invention History
For
Fax Machine
Fax (stands for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. The original document is scanned with a fax machine (or a telecopier ), which processes the contents (text or images) as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap, and then transmitting it through the telephone system in the form of audio-frequency tones.
Inventor :
Alexander Bain
Born :
12.10.1811
Died :
02.01.1877
History :
Alexander Bain was born in Watten, Caithness, Scotland. His father was a crofter. He had a twin sister, Margaret, and, in total, he had six sisters and six brothers. Bain did not excel in school and was apprenticed to a clockmaker in Wick. Bain worked on an experimental fax machine in 1843 to 1846. He used a clock to synchronies the movement of two pendulums for line-by-line scanning of a message.
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