> I'd be interested in seeing the article. I've repaired many fax
> machines and was unaware that they have been around for this long!
OK, this one's a 1907 prototype But! it's for continuous tone images.
The process is called "Belin Telephotography" and it resembles the
machine in "Bullitt" mentioned earlier, but as a proto.
The dual pendulums thing I think I saw in one of the James Burke,
er, programmes.
See:
http://www.panix.com/~allain/belin/
(warning: cut rate contrast matching)
If someone wants to OCR this, I'll incorporate it.
John A.
Received on Wed Apr 04 2001 - 19:50:58 BST