[GreenKeys] Telephoto machines?

[Jim Haynes]

I'll show my iggorance.  I remember the English company Muirhead made
that kind of machine.  I wonder if Fairchild was involved.  They made
a thing called scan-a-graver that scanned a photo print and produced
a printing plate from it.  I believe Xerox was involved in the 56KB
stuff.

Teletype was contracted to produce both a large-format fax and a
photo-quality fax for a government project (Long Lines Project 176).
I know the large-format machine was eventually produced.  At the
time I was involved there didn't seem to be any work being done on
the photo quality machine.

The WW-II era AN/TXC-1 was a photo-quality machine used by the military.
I imagine it was derived from a civilian machine, but I don't see anything
in the tech manual that identifies the supplier.

There was, I believe, a company called Times Facsimile.  Nick England's
web site mentions some fax equipment used by the Navy and made by Times
Facsimile.  I wonder if that was a subsidiary of the N.Y. Times.  There
was also a Times Wire & Cable Co. that made coaxial cables among other
things.

Ah, yes, I see a web page www.hffax.de/history/html/facsimile_makers.html
Perhaps answers all the questions.

There were fax companies Alden and Hogan Faximile, but I don't know if
they made photo-quality equipment.  Then Western Union spent tons of
money on fax development, but I don't know if they got into photo quality.
They were more interested in fax as a way of handling messages.