On 04/07/2011 12:34 PM, Invisible wrote:
> On 04/07/2011 08:57 AM, Invisible wrote:
>
>> Even more than whether it was "feasible", I was wondering whether it's
>> an idea that anyone would have even thought of. Did people know enough
>> about electricity to realise that you could use it to transmit
>> information?
>
> It appears the earliest telegraph experiments happened somewhere around
> this time-frame. I don't know how widely-known they were at the time
> though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#History

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Regards
     Stephen

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