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AN instructive paper, by G. Herrick, describing the progress in the United States of facsimile transmission, that is, the transmission of the printed page, drawings, photographs, documents and original messages by radio or wire telegraphy, appears in the Electrical Review of January 19. Certain electrical problems, more commercial than technical, have yet to be solved, and further development makes it necessary to use the best type of paper for recording purposes. Recently when President Roosevelt went to Canadian waters on a fishing trip, on board the U.S. Cruiser Tuscaloosa, he received a total of about 50,000 words of news on a facsimile receiver in his office-cabin, while the ship's officers received the same news on a duplicate receiver in the vessel's office.
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Facsimile Transmission. Nature 145, 233 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145233a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145233a0