Did you know fax machines were invented 33 years before the telephone?
Fax
Did you know fax machines were invented 33 years before the telephone?
Imagine you're working in an office in the 1980s, and you need to send a signed document to a colleague in another building. You can't just walk over to their desk; it's too far and inconvenient.
The fax machine lets you scan a document and send it over the phone to another fax machine that prints it out. This way, you can share important documents quickly without needing to physically deliver them.
Example
You scan a signed contract and send it via fax to your colleague's office. They receive it and print it out almost instantly.
Remember this
The fax machine revolutionized quick document sharing by converting printed material into audio tones for phone transmission.
Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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