The Fax Machine Was Invented 33 Years Before the Telephone. #history #shorts

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]In 1843, [music] a Scottish inventor named Alexander Bain patented the first fax machine. He called it the electric printing [music] telegraph. It transmitted images over wire by scanning a document [music] line by line and reproducing it at the other end. In 1876, 33 years later, Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. People were sending [music] documents over wire before they could send their voice. The technology we [music] think of as old came before the technology we think of as its predecessor. Which invention order surprised you most? Comment, subscribe for more mind-bending [music] history.