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Pantelegraph - An early fax invention used to transmit images over telegraph lines. Fultograph - An early fax invention used to transmit images over radio waves" Telautograph - An early fax invention used to transmit signatures over long distances.

The Golden Age of the Facsimile Machine The fax market soon took off after Xerox's 1966 Magnafax Telecopier. By the late 1970s, both national and international companies had entered the fax market, especially Japan.

A fax -- short for facsimile and sometimes called telecopying -- is the telephonic transmission of scanned-in printed material, including text or images. Faxes are usually sent to a telephone number associated with a printer, fax machine or other output device.

Telephone transmission In 1964, Xerox Corporation introduced (and patented) what many consider to be the first commercialized version of the modern fax machine, under the name (LDX) or Long Distance Xerography.

Alexander Bain's fax machine transmitter scanned a flat metal surface using a stylus mounted on a pendulum. The stylus picked up images from the metal surface. An amateur clockmaker, Alexander Bain combined parts from clock mechanisms together with telegraph machines to invent his fax machine.

Alexander Bain's fax machine transmitter scanned a flat metal surface using a stylus mounted on a pendulum. The stylus picked up images from the metal surface. An amateur clockmaker, Alexander Bain combined parts from clock mechanisms together with telegraph machines to invent his fax machine.

By the early 1980s, there were more fax machines in homes and offices than in large organizations. By the end of the decade, several million fax machines were in use. However, this widespread success wouldn't last. By the 2000s, the fax machine was on the decline, with fewer consumers purchasing it.