KORN, ARTHUR. - THE TELEPHOTOGRAPHIC MACHINE.

Sur un appareil servant à compenser l'inertie du sélénium.

(Paris, Gauthier-Villars), 1906. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Tome 143, No 23. Pp. (857-) 940. (Entire issue offered). Korn's paper: pp. 892-895. And one diagram in the text. Paperquality rather poor, a bit fragile.

In this paper Korn gives a technical decription of his invention of his telephotographic machine (later the fax-machine)
In 1902, Arthur Korn (1870-1945) in Germany invented telephotography, a means for transmitting still photographs by means of electrical wires. In 1907, Korn sent the first inter-city fax when he transmitted a photograph from Munich to Berlin. By 1906 his equipment was being put into regular service for transmission of newspaper photographs between Munich and berlin via telegraph circuits. (Hook & Norman "Origins of Cyperspace", No. 171).

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