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	The history of the Fax machine

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2-10-2008 11:10 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/15e2e6dd-76f4-41f6-a7d0-4168207cc7d6/67DF3C17-F5F1-4C28-AB62-7568CE1E5693/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-fax-machines.html" href="http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-fax-machines.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.thehistoryof.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-fax-machines.html">Fax machines - new technology, right?  Not so, my friend.  Of course, they don't go back as far as the old smoke or drum signals used centuries ago.  But they do go back over 150 years.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-fax-machines.html"><P>A Scottish inventor, Alexander Bain, began his career as an apprentice to a clockmaker.  He actually invented the first electric clock, which had a pendulum powered by an electromagnet.  This invention would come in handy when he started to think about transmitting messages.  The fax machine he invented actually used clockwork principles and parts to operate.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-fax-machines.html">In 1843, Bain patented his ideas for "improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvement in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs."  He'd created a fax machine transmitter that used a stylus to scan a flat metal surface mounted on a pendulum, thus picking up the images on the surface.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.thehistoryof.net/history-of-fax-machines.html"><H2>Other inventors improved on Bain's fax machine</H2></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/67DF3C17-F5F1-4C28-AB62-7568CE1E5693/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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