Precursor to the fax machine, the pantelegraph was developed by Giovanni Caselli in the 1860s. A needle attached to the end of a pendulum "scanned" a sheet of paper, with the ink and paper producing different amounts of resistance, sent over telegram to another location with a closely synchronized pendulum.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
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