The Fax Machine Was Invented in 1843, Before The Telephone
This next fact is truly hard to wrap your head around, since fax machines were often associated with working in offices in the 1980’s and 1990’s. Believe it or not, though, Alexander Bain filed the first patent for a fax machine in 1843.
These fax messages were sent over telegraph lines between train stations. To give some perspective, this was during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln, and the samurai caste still existed in Japan. Even though this technology existed for a very long time, it wasn’t until the 1980’s that the concept was reworked into a machine that could send copies of text via phone lines.
