Paris / Munich / Lyon / Nuremberg / Washington / DC / Berlin / London / /
Company
Finch Telecommunications / Hugo Gernsback’s Radio / Bain / RCA / Hogan Laboratories / Radio Inventions Inc. / The Johns Hopkins University Press / Siemens / Adobe / Western Union / Xerox / Courtesy Sharp Corporation / Times Facsimile Inc. / Microsoft / /
Continent
Europe / North America / /
Country
France / Japan / China / Russia / United States / /
Currency
USD / JPY / /
Facility
Texas A&M University / University of Munich / College Station / Courtesy David Sarnoff Library / /
IndustryTerm
long-distance telephone charges / storage / telephone-based fax machines / manufacturing expertise / printing telegraph / telephony / optical systems / online compendium / fax systems / fax technology / written communications / agricultural equipment / metal foil / abbreviated newspaper / Internet Mail Extension / Internet business model / telecommunications / democratic technology / telephone / manufacturing / e-mail systems / postal services / incompatible networks / data compression algorithms / enhanced record keeping / consumer electronics / public telephone network / wireless fax / telecommunications network / electromechanical systems / corporate tool / Internet development / telephone networks / printing / message technologies / telephone wires / electronics / electrochemical solution / fax equipment / search engine / picture telegraphy networks / telephone system / interactive voice technology / /
NaturalFeature
Pacific Ocean / /
OperatingSystem
Microsoft Windows / /
Organization
The Johns Hopkins University / International Telecommunications Union / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration / Texas A&M University / IEEE History Committee / University of Munich / German military / U.S. Weather Service / United Nations / American military for transmitting weather maps and reconnaissance photographs / /
Person
Tokuji Hayakawa / John Young / William Cook / Alexander Bain / Richard Ranger / Eduoard Belin / Louis Figuier / David Hughes / Ruth Schwartz Cowan / Austin Cooley / Albert J. Koenig / Thomas Whitely / JONATHAN C. COOPERSMITH / Frederick Bakewell / Shelford Bidwell / Arthur Korn / Thomas D. Whitely / Bernhard Meyer / Giovanni Caselli / John V. L. Hogan / Samuel Morse / Thomas Edison / Courtesy William Conlon / Jr. / / /
Position
telegraph clerk / MACHINES Editor / historian / author / general business purposes / ABOUT THE AUTHOR / Associate Professor / physicist / Associate Professor of History / /
SCANNING OUR PAST STARS: FAX MACHINES Editor’s note: This month we continue a series of reprints from the IEEE Global History Network’s STARS articles. 1