So which was it, the telephone or the fax machine? Wait, what? Seriously? Of course there had to be phone lines in place before a fax machine would even be useful, right? Nope.
According to Wikipedia:
"Scottish inventor Alexander Bain worked on chemical mechanical fax type devices and in 1846 was able to reproduce graphic signs in laboratory experiments. He received patent 9745 on May 27, 1843 for his 'Electric Printing Telegraph.' Frederick Bakewell made several improvements on Bain's design and demonstrated a telefax machine. The Pantelegraph was invented by the Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli. He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of telephones."
There's something interesting that I did not know.
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