WirePhoto

[davemchine]

I like to watch older tv shows and movies. Recently I was watching Columbo (is it really that old?) and they transmitted a picture using WirePhoto technology. Amazingly they (not columbo) were transmitting photo's even in the late 1800's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirephoto

[eustacetilley]

This was a bit of a hobby in the forties and fifties- newspapers delivered by Facsimile. Originally, 106-108 MHz of the new FM band was reserved for Facsimile broadcasting.
http://www.theradiohistorian.org/Radiofa...e_air1.htm

Hams got into the act in the sixties, when Western Union dumped their old tube machines with thermal paper for pennies. (I paid $15 for two machines, a box of paper rolls, and the "mo-dem" that hooked up to an Ham FM transceiver.)


Drum Facsimile was already obsolete by the time of "Columbo". But if you want to see a really well done depiction of the Tech, catch the "Facsimile" scene in "Bullitt":


Eustace

[mrlynn]

eustacetilley wrote:
the "mo-dem"

Leaving me wondering about the origin. Apparently "modulator-demodulator":

http://etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=modem&searchmode=none

/Mr Lynn

[WHiiP]

Eustace;

How freakin' old are you ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Don't tap dance around this question. You could be the oldest man in the world. Have you inquired?

[Ken Sp.]

Here is one of my Wire Photos

[The UnDoug]

Ken Sp, that is a beautiful photo!

[Mr Downtown]

eustacetilley wrote:
Drum Facsimile was already obsolete by the time of "Columbo".

I don't know. At Arthur Andersen World Headquarters in 1982-83 we still had a special room and staff for such things. And my next employer had an Exxon Qwip into the late 1980s.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

eustacetilley wrote:
...But if you want to see a really well done depiction of the Tech, catch the "Facsimile" scene in "Bullitt":

I thought of that specific scene when I first opened this thread.

[eustacetilley]

WHiiP wrote:
Eustace;

How freakin' old are you ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? Don't tap dance around this question. You could be the oldest man in the world. Have you inquired?

Still young enough to have all of my teeth, and half of my wits,
But old enough to be vague as to how the occasional dangly bit fits.
Left out of things that are currently the rage,
Right in the square middle of square middle age.

My Quantum Mechanical tools are now rather rusted,
Balancing on a bike is a skill not to be trusted.
I've been forgetting things as the mind sets to rot,
So I've been writing it all down, lest the forgettable be forgot.

Some consider it rude to be asked about how old,
Or whether the last Ice Age was really that cold.
Mom remained twenty-nine when asked for a clue,
I am currently twice my Mom's age; Mom's age times two.

I'm not remotely the oldest Man on this Earth,
I've not done much to be considered of Worth.
With Age comes Wisdom, some idiots say,
I'm living proof that it just isn't that way.

Eustace
(Edited- Momma would have noticed that misapplied comma.)

[WHiiP]

Mom remained twenty-nine when asked for a clue,
I am currently twice my Mom's age, Mom's age times two.

Ok, lets see... 29 X 2 = 58 X 2 = 116 years old.

Like I said, "You could be the oldest man in the world." :peace:




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