Wirephoto

Wirephoto

Wirephoto or telephotography is the sending of pictures by telegraph or telephone.

Western Union transmitted its first halftone photograph in 1921.Fact|date=September 2008 AT&T followed in 1924, [cite web | url = http://www.corp.att.com/attlabs/reputation/timeline/24fax.html | title = 1924: Fax Service | work = AT&T Labs timeline] and RCA sent a "Radiophoto" in 1926.Fact|date=September 2008 The Associated Press began its Wirephoto service in 1935, and held a trademark on the term "AP Wirephoto" between 1963 and 2004.Fact|date=September 2008 The first AP photo sent by wire depicted the crash of a small plane in New York's Adirondack Mountains. [ [http://www.ap.org/pages/about/history/history_second.html "AP History 1901-1950". "Associated Press".] ]

Technologically and commercially, the wirephoto was the successor to Ernest A. Hummel's Telediagraph of 1895, which had transmitted electrically scanned schellac-on-foil originals over a dedicated circuit connecting the "New York Herald" and the "Chicago Times Herald", the "St. Louis Republic", the "Boston Herald", and the "Philadelphia Inquirer". [ [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/forgottenfutures/fax/fax.htm Pictures By Telegraph] ] [ [http://www.hffax.de/history/html/pearson_magazine.html Pearson Magazine (1900)] ]

Édouard Belin's Belinograph of 1913, which scanned using a photocell and transmitted over ordinary phone lines, formed the basis for the AT&T Wirephoto service. In Europe, services similar to a wirephoto were called a Belino.Fact|date=September 2008

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