Comments on: The Fax Machines of the 1800s http://www.damninteresting.com/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/ A collection of legitimately fascinating information culled from the past, present, and anticipated future. Tue, 22 May 2012 01:30:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Fishrock http://www.damninteresting.com/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/#comment-27066 Fishrock Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:13:53 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=40#comment-27066 I don't think they're obsolete. I agree with Drakvil; I just got my first "creaking old dinosaur" last year, and I use it regularly. I'm interested to hear about 3-D fax machines, the ones that scan objects, then send the dimensions, so the receiving machine can carve a piece of plastic into the same shape. No practical applications yet, as I understand, but maybe someday. I don’t think they’re obsolete. I agree with Drakvil; I just got my first “creaking old dinosaur” last year, and I use it regularly.

I’m interested to hear about 3-D fax machines, the ones that scan objects, then send the dimensions, so the receiving machine can carve a piece of plastic into the same shape. No practical applications yet, as I understand, but maybe someday.

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]]> By: DanThinksDances&femaleGspot http://www.damninteresting.com/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/#comment-22136 DanThinksDances&femaleGspot Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:41:36 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=40#comment-22136 Enter your reply text here. OK //////////////////Alchemist #3 October 29th, 2007 10:00 am I'd think the telautograph would be more secure than a fax, or digital storage is it directly duplicates a unique event. I hate fax machines./////////////////////// America, why do we let cheap Chineese (yes, China is a great nation) components enter our fabric of life making things unreliable. Proud contrarian I am, E-mail is slow with to many tiny steps. Easyier to dial a # and be specific by phone. Our "state of the art" always has faults compared to, well, before we went cheap. Example. $80,000.00 city fire works dies because coffie was spilled on a computer. Matches won't work. I hate e-mail because it slows me down, but still use it. An American or Japanese fully made computer. That's one that will work. But I'll still use my 1888 based autograph sending machine. Enter your reply text here. OK
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I’d think the telautograph would be more secure than a fax, or digital storage is it directly duplicates a unique event. I hate fax machines.///////////////////////

America, why do we let cheap Chineese (yes, China is a great nation) components enter our fabric of life making things unreliable. Proud contrarian I am, E-mail is slow with to many tiny steps. Easyier to dial a # and be specific by phone. Our “state of the art” always has faults compared to, well, before we went cheap.

Example. $80,000.00 city fire works dies because coffie was spilled on a computer. Matches won’t work.

I hate e-mail because it slows me down, but still use it.

An American or Japanese fully made computer. That’s one that will work. But I’ll still use my 1888 based autograph sending machine.

]]> By: Alchemist http://www.damninteresting.com/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/#comment-18063 Alchemist Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:00:29 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=40#comment-18063 I'd think the telautograph would be more secure than a fax, or digital storage is it directly duplicates a unique event. I hate fax machines. I really really do. As for the infringement, it seems like a pretty weak case to me, and probably would get past the examiners these days. Seems pretty darn different prima facie, but then, it was a long time ago, and things were different then. I’d think the telautograph would be more secure than a fax, or digital storage is it directly duplicates a unique event. I hate fax machines. I really really do.

As for the infringement, it seems like a pretty weak case to me, and probably would get past the examiners these days. Seems pretty darn different prima facie, but then, it was a long time ago, and things were different then.

]]> By: ti83 http://www.damninteresting.com/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/#comment-14474 ti83 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:11:15 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=40#comment-14474 <p>That's amazing! Wow, and to think, no one knows about these guys, but they sound just brilliant.</p> That’s amazing! Wow, and to think, no one knows about these guys, but they sound just brilliant.

]]> By: Drakvil http://www.damninteresting.com/the-fax-machines-of-the-1800s/#comment-7333 Drakvil Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:11:48 +0000 http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=40#comment-7333 <p>I'm still amazed today at how many places ask me to fax them documents... I don't own a working fax machine and it is so much faster to e-mail the document itself than to put up with the fax machine itself.</p><p>I find it amazing that Bain's system was construed as an infringement on Morse Code.</p> I’m still amazed today at how many places ask me to fax them documents… I don’t own a working fax machine and it is so much faster to e-mail the document itself than to put up with the fax machine itself.

I find it amazing that Bain’s system was construed as an infringement on Morse Code.

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