In defense of NASA: was Re: Wirin' up blinkenlights

From: William Donzelli <aw288_at_osfn.org>
Date: Mon Jun 12 10:13:31 2000

> I was aware that Toshiba was building facsimile machines in 1928
> in Japan, but I didn't know the ability to send an image to a remote
> location predated the deployment of electricity.

It may have been the very early 1800s, but such machines do exist.
Pentelegraph (sp?) is one of them.

William Donzelli
aw288_at_osfn.org
Received on Mon Jun 12 2000 - 10:13:31 BST