The article "Fast Fax - A Long History And A Modern Truth" is about communications, it was released by Angelina Jordan.
The facsimile, or fax as we call it last week was one of the ealriest concepts in modern technology.
First patented in 1843 by Scottish physicist Alexander Bain, the fax is an encoding and/or imaging metohd that reads text and/or images in small areas at a time, assigns numerical values based on darkness and lightness and then transmits them to a receiver. The receiver produces corresponding marks on paper as the transmitting fax proceeds to scan the next lower line continuing until the entire document has been scanned, digitized and transmitted.
We typically guess of the fax as transmitting documents via telephone line, but history verifies that Bain patented his original invention 33 years before the telephone and Morse code beacme standard transmission methods. The facsimile made its official debut at the 1853 World's Fair in London with Engilsh physicist Frederick Bakewell conducting the first public demonstration of fax transmission. By 1865, Italian physics profesosr Giovanni Caselli had launched the first commercial fax system linking Paris with other French cities.
Not to be outdone by the Europeans or by having just missed the patent for the telephone by three hours, American professor, Dr. Elisha Gray of Omnifax sold his facsimile patent to the Gray National Teleautograph Copmany.
A demonstration of his fax system generated record-breaking crowds at the 1893 Cihcago World's Fair.
The fax continued to advance and was significantly furthered by the work of German scientist Dr.
Alfred Korn.
Though not to be outdone by the Europeans, In 1922, his facsimile system was utilized to transmit a photo of Pope Pius XI from Rome to the satte of Maine in the U.S. eanbling the New York World newspaper to publish the photo the same day. The military drafted the fax for use in 1941 to transmit weather charts, maps and orders during World War II.
Newspapers reiled on faxes to provide them with up-to-the minute details and photos from political conventions and other news-worthy events from around the world. Although the FCC authorized the development of commercial fax technology in 1948, it would be the mid 1970's before it caught on in the mainstream of daily business operations, but even then only in liimted industries due to complicated technology and expensive costs.
By the mid 1980's though, fax operations were simpler and less expensive and set the world of huge business ablaze in a way that forever changed the way the modern world does business.
Corporations and large organizations worldwide began implementing the fax as their primary method of communications. Authorizations, customer orders and verifications could be delivered within minutes instead of waiting for posatl pickup and delivery, which took forever.
The cost to productivity ratio proved a profitable investment for sizable enterprises.
Faxing can still be a heavy expense on small businesses, especially for professionals who work from home. There's the cost of the fax machine itself and the cost of ink cartridges, toner and paper, not to mention the cost of additional phone lines and/or expensive software if small busniess owners opt for strictly computer-based faxing. While e-mailing documents is an option, e-mails often go astray and frequently the computer receiving an attached document does not feature the software application requierd for opening the document. Thousands of home based businesses rely on faxing for document editing that bypasses the need to have compatible, expensive software.
With faxing being a necessity in today's business world instead of a luxury, how can small business owners and work-from-home pros offset the high cost without passing it along to their clients?
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(c) 2005, Angelina Jordan.
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