Comments on: The Fax Machines of the 1800s

By: JarvisLoop

JarvisLoop — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 03:53:29 +0000

Great article, and I didn’t know a bit of it.

I think, though, that the fax machine today is just abut extinct.

By: gral

gral — Mon, 18 Aug 2014 19:26:17 +0000

An old man came in to the store I work at to fax some documents. After a moment of fussing with the documents he said to me “This technology is moving ahead faster than an old man can handle!” If only he’d known that the machine he was working with was invented before he was even born!

By: Fishrock

Fishrock — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:13:53 +0000

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.

By: bubaks

bubaks — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:39:31 +0000

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By: DanThinksDances&femaleGspot

DanThinksDances&femaleGspot — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:41:36 +0000

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//////////////////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.

By: Alchemist

Alchemist — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:00:29 +0000

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

ti83 — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:11:15 +0000

That's amazing! Wow, and to think, no one knows about these guys, but they sound just brilliant.

By: Drakvil

Drakvil — Tue, 18 Jul 2006 19:11:48 +0000

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.