Fax Machine (World’sFirst).

The world's first fax machine was patented in 1843 by Alexander Bain. He came from a remote croft in Caithness in Scotland and, for his early experiments, used cattle jaw bones for hinges and heather for springs. His fax machine was based on an electric clock, which he had also invented.

Firsts in Fax Machine History.

1) In 1902, Dr Arthur Korn invented an improved and practical fax, the photoelectric system.
2) In 1914, Edouard Belin established the concept for remote fax photo/news reporting.
3) The American Telephone & Telegraph Company (AT&T) worked to improve telephone facsimile technology, and in 1924, the telephotography machine was used to send political convention photos long distance for newspaper publication.
4) On March 4, 1955, the first radio facsimile transmission was sent across the continent.

The first machines were installed in the office of the New York Herald in 1898. Even the fax machine was invented in West, but it's more famous in the Japan later (modern era). Modern fax technology became feasible only in the mid-1970s as the sophistication and cost of the three underlying technologies improved to a reasonable level.

Fax machines first became popular in Japan, where they had an clear advantage over competing technologies like telex; it is faster to write Japanese ideographs than to type them. Over time, they gradually became affordable and were very popular around the world by the mid-1980s.


World's First Fax Machine.