Bot that I don't beleive him but my father says that in his 1959 office there was a Deskfax which transmitted handwritten messages down a phone line to his works. You wrote on a yellow sheet of paper. At the other end, your handwriting would be burned into a sandwich of paper with iron filings.
2007-06-10 12:29:02 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Document affixed to a cylinder and spun up. Tiny spot of light sent left to right with reflectance encoded. Data transmitted to identical box with blank photographic paper on the cylinder. Variable light exposed the paper that then reproduced the document or text when developed.
Desk-FAX
2007-06-10 12:53:38 · answer #1 · answered by Uncle Al 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
He is probably telling the truth because I saw a machine which sent hand written messages over telephone networks in 1958 and they were probably around a bit earlier. About the iron filings it seems quite possible.
2007-06-10 12:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO Technology like that did not exist in 1959. He is taking the pee.
2007-06-10 12:32:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I was with you until the sandwich part. Otherwise, it just sounds like a telgraph to me.
2007-06-10 12:34:28 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Geologist 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You dad is correct.
2007-06-10 12:36:44 · answer #5 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes,it's true
2007-06-10 13:18:36 · answer #6 · answered by Azalian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes ok.
2007-06-10 12:36:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋