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it's time for a brief history of the fax machine 1843 invented back in 1843 by Alexander Bain the electric printing Telegraph was the world's first faxing device amazingly it predated the telephone 1880 English inventors Shelford Bidwell invents the scanning photo Telegraph machine which is the first machine capable of scanning and sending a 2-dimensional image 1888 the TEL autograph was invented by Elisha gray which allowed users to send images of their signature over long distances 1924 at the beginning of the 20th century the AT&T corporation advanced fax technology further by faxing via wire transmission soon after the Radio Corporation of America successfully transmitted a wireless fax across the Atlantic Ocean while at the AT&T corporation Herbert E Ives transmitted the world's first caller fax the technology would eventually play a key role in early television broadcasts over the years fax transmission time has been reduced from an average of six minutes to an average of one minute 1960 the US Army sends the world's first photograph via satellite facsimile from America to Puerto Rico 1964 the first commercialized version of the modern-day fax machine is introducing by the Xerox Corporation using telephone transmission 1982 in 1982 a fax machine would cost you $20,000 ouch and who could forget about our friends at Galilee also in 1982 Gamal Inc introduced the first computer based backs port the gamma fax 1996 finally in 1996 the first internet fax service was made available to the general public allowing users to send and receive a fax via computer 2010 alas the classic fax machine of the 1980s has become obsolete and faxes are now routinely sent from Android and iOS smartphones who knows what will happen next for this most beloved technology this has been a brief history of the fax machine [Music]