"...first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of the telephone": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#

"...first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon in 1865, some 11 years before the invention of the telephone": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Wire_transmission https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax#Wire_transmission