Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Fax machine (first patent)
Patented
1843
Alexander Bain patented his “electric printing telegraph” 33 years before the telephone.
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Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P571: 1843Q132744, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“på mottakersiden. Historikk Den skotske oppfinneren Alexander Bain fikk britisk patent for sin «Electric Printing Telegraph» i 1843 og lyktes med å overføre bildekomponenter i laboratoriet rundt 1846. Frederick”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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