blog post week 8

 A technology that someone else did that I thought was interesting the fax machine. A Scottish inventor named Alexander Bain worked on chemical mechanical fax devices in 1846 and was able to produce graphic signs. For his effort of this, he has been rewarded a British paten for is Electric Printing Telegrapher. Another inventor named Fredrick Bakewell helped make improvements to Alexander Bain’s design and demonstrated a telefax machine. The first fax machine that became popular was by Xerox in 1964. Xerox introduced the first commercialized version of the modern fax machine called the Long Distance Xerography. Two years later Xerox released the Magnafax Xerography. In the ’70s faxing became more popular in the world and people continued to make the fax machines smaller. The fax machine is still in use today and there is a reason why. The face machine is now used for the FBI because it requires fax requests for FOIA requests. Faxing has always been around in some form even before telephones were made. Today it is just a different type of faxing than before.