Re: Starving people refuse to eat food aid
Canth
Heydt) wrote:
>In article <3md8g552snt0g34bv...@4ax.com>,
>Don Aitken <don-a...@freeuk.com> wrote:
>>On Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:13:33 -0800 (PST), Robert Carnegie: Fnord: cc
>>talk-o...@moderators.isc.org <rja.ca...@excite.com> wrote:
>>
>>>On Nov 18, 1:29 am, "Keith F. Lynch" <k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>>>> Dorothy J Heydt <djhe...@kithrup.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Back in the 1960s ...
>>>> > (This was before faxes. Long before.)
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, but the fax machine was invented in the '40s. The *1840s*.
>>>> Faxing was demonstrated at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London.
>>>
>>>"Not Invented Here". However, I think one shows up in a Charlie Chan
>>>movie or something, as modern-day crime-fighting technology -
>>>explained in detail - sending a villain's photograph from one side of
>>>the country to the other. Transmitter and receiver look like Edison
>>>audio cylinder equipment. You wrap the photo print around the
>>>transmitter cylinder and set it spinning...
>>
>>Yup. Newspaper photographs, and before that line drawings, were
>>transmitted to remote printing plants using that method.
>
>Put it this way. Irrespective of when it was invented, I
>never saw a fax machine in an office till about 1990.
In the 1970's, the place where I worked had fax machines in accounts &
stores to deal with suppliers, in the library for communicating with
other libraries, and in the Director's office. We used faxes a lot to
communicate forms & since most of our suppliers, etc also had faxes to
receive them, I presume that the business need had been well
established by then.
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Keith F. Lynch
> In the 1970's, the place where I worked had fax machines in accounts
> & stores to deal with suppliers, in the library for communicating
> with other libraries, and in the Director's office. We used faxes a
> lot to communicate forms & since most of our suppliers, etc also had
> faxes to receive them, I presume that the business need had been
> well established by then.
Was this the kind with the rotating cylinder?
When the Soviet Luna 9 probe landed on the Moon in 1966, people in the
West recognized the signals as standard fax machine tones. They fed
them into fax machines and the resulting photos were published in
various newspapers.
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Canth
<k...@KeithLynch.net> wrote:
>Canth <kwar...@bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> In the 1970's, the place where I worked had fax machines in accounts
>> & stores to deal with suppliers, in the library for communicating
>> with other libraries, and in the Director's office. We used faxes a
>> lot to communicate forms & since most of our suppliers, etc also had
>> faxes to receive them, I presume that the business need had been
>> well established by then.
>
>Was this the kind with the rotating cylinder?
>
>When the Soviet Luna 9 probe landed on the Moon in 1966, people in the
>West recognized the signals as standard fax machine tones. They fed
>them into fax machines and the resulting photos were published in
>various newspapers.
To be honest, I never investigated their innards. It's a long time
ago, but ISTR that the paper for incoming faxes was continuous feed
from a roll. Outgoing faxes were on separate sheets which were fed
into a slot one at a time (I think).