Alexander Bain patents the fax
The fax machine came 33 years before the telephone
In 1843 the Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain received a British patent for an 'electric printing telegraph' in which pendulums at both ends of a wire swept line by line in step to copy an image. It was the forerunner of the fax machine, invented before the telephone.
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The fax machine is 33 years older than the telephone. Scottish clockmaker Alexander Bain patented his 'electric printing telegraph' in 1843; Bell's telephone patent came in 1876. Share →
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