THE VICTORIAN FAX (1843)
Inspired by the original in the musee Arts et Metier in Paris, I spent
weeks perfecting my own version. I could only get it to work using a transistor to amplify
the signal to mark the recording paper. I can’t imagine how the original managed to
work. (In the same vein, I never worked out how Poulson’s original 1910 telegraphone,
the first tape recorder, managed to work without electronic amplification).
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OTIS LIFT DEMONSTRATION
Model of Otis’s safety mechanism for the lift, demonstrated by Rex
cutting through the rope holding me up.
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