Hello Just read an interesting article on www.romfi.com. My first thought on looking at the page was "what an odd phonograph!". However this turns out to be a fax machine from 1928 that bares an eerie resemblance to an Edison Home? I thought wow, one invention was a stepping stone for the next........
Then I read the entire article, and was very surprised to read that in the 1860's already there was a kind of functioning facmile transmission that operated using tinfoil! I don't know if Edison borrowed this idea when experimenting with sound, but there does seem to be some parallels in the development of the 2 technologies. Does anyone have any idea if this was part of the inspiration for Edison? btw If you look on ROMFI under Music reproduction then Phonograph Cylinder or Phonograph Disk there are a lot of different machines, and under Record Labels a lot of very nice labels. I add pictures occasionally, and think that it in the way the system is set up, it has a potential to be a great platform to store trechnology history. Posting is easier than ebay :-) best regards Rob
