Notes on the early history of electronic media...
 

Did you know that the first commercially successful fax machine made
its appearance (thereby causing the appearance elsewhere of the facsimile
images it generated) in... the 1860's? A fascinating examination (one that
gets the dates right) of the history of electronically generated media awaits,
courtesy of the esteemed and non-electronic Mark Schubin, on his site at
Schubin Blog: When Did We Come From?

Enjoy,