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Events on Saturday 27 May 1843 1
1843Alexander Bain patents the facsimileScottish clockmaker patents electrical image transmissionAlexander Bain received a British patent for a device that used synchronised pendulums to scan and reproduce images over telegraph wires. It was the first patented design for what became the fax machine.