In a message dated 7/31/2006 10:28:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> 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! 
> 
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do you have the exact URL for this article? Ironically, Edison used tinfoil 
to prevent the (underlying) wax from clogging the recording stylus.

allen
 www.phonobooks.com

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