[GreenKeys] OT Fwd: News by Radio Fax 1920 - 1930

[Richard Knoppow]

    There are a lot of popular magazines of the time at 
americanradiohistory. com.  If you go through these and also look at the 
FCC applications you will find a great deal of publicity for FAX. Finch 
Telecommunications, who held a number of important patents and made FAX 
equipment was one of the principle promoters. There was actually FAX 
transmission on the air experimentally but it was not successful for 
reasons other posters have mentioned.
    As far as the atomic house and flying cars one has to look no 
further than Hugo Gernsback publications or Popular Mechanix.  What I 
find interesting is that the traffic congestion in the air was as bad as 
that on the ground. All those autogyros flitting around.  Of course, 
everything was to be atomic powered.
     Some of these magazines had a "predictions of the future" feature, 
usually what they thought the world would be like in 25 or 50 years. The 
missed pretty widely more often that not. I also always wondered why 
anyone thought some of the future ideas were even desirable.
    I think it was the Japanese that really put FAX on the map. Japanese 
is a pictographic language, not well suited to telegraph or printing 
machines. FAX is ideal.

On 12/3/2016 2:10 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
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> Imagine getting up in the morning and picking up a freshly printed
> newspaper from your broadcast receiver. That technology was available in
> the 1930s!
>
> Broadcast stations transmitted FAX signals to home receivers after
> midnight when they would normally be off the air.
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> <http://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/just-the-radio-fax-maam?utm_source=Newsletter+%2369&utm_campaign=Newsletter+%2369&utm_medium=emai>
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> This article talks about a narrow printer, but we have FAX newspaper
> printouts at the AWA Museum that are closer to the size of regular papers.
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> Have fun,
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> Duncan
> K2OEQ
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