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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to History@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago

How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926)

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How photos are cabled across the Atlantic (1926)

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to History@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year ago
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    Mechanically encoded to paper tape, then electronically transmitted via undersea cable, then reversed on the other end for printing. Complex!

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      The alpha phase of the Internet.

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    Fax, predating the telephone by about 7 years.

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    This link from the mastodon poster has a sample of what the images looked like. http://www.hffax.de/history/html/bartlane.html

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      Thanks, I was wondering about the resolution. Better than I expected, those dots are quite tiny!

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