When the fax machine was introduced, it was a true revolution. Forms no longer needed to be sent via snail mail. Finally, information could be sent over telephone lines and be almost instantly received by the recipient. It was a huge deal, and businesses across the country and the globe were scrambling to get fax machines and fax lines set up in their offices. This was during the 1980s, but did you know that faxes have essentially been around for over a century? Back in 1881, an inventor England named Shelford Bidwell invented what he called the scanning phototelegraph. Around 1900, … [Read more...]