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Aristus

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15. The FAX machine wasn't new in the late 1800's.

Reply to Staph (Reply #14)

Fri Jul 30, 2021, 08:37 AM

Jul 2021

It was invented not long after the telegraph, and was based on telegraph technology. They were sending commercial faxes in France long before the invention of the telephone.

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