Bain's machine was dated 1842, commercial service began at Paris, 1863.
I think NYU law school has some interesting bits on the early fax service.
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > > 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.
>
> As far as I know, the first facsimile machine was invented in around 1826
> (there was a nice little article about it in the back of Success magazine
> [of all places] over a year ago).
>
> Napolean supposedly deployed them all around Europe so that he could
> distribute intelligence and battle plans fast and efficiently.
>
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