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Not sure if it's the same tech or just similar, but all newspapers used to transmit photos from correspondents by telephone, all the way up to the eighties at l
by Tor3 3y ago
Not sure if it's the same tech or just similar, but all newspapers used to transmit photos from correspondents by telephone, all the way up to the eighties at least. I remember seeing it in practice - I was taking part in a multi-day bicycling competition, and a newspaper sent a two-person team to follow the tour. They developed their photos in their hotel room every evening, and sent them by phone to the newspaper back home, and the newspaper had a new story with photos every day.
- anovikov 3y agoSame tech. That stuff was mainly used by press indeed (and law enforcement, like sending suspect photos and fingerprints).
- flyinghamster 3y agoNote that in the original 1965 Ian Fleming novel The Man with the Golden Gun (which has little in common with the movie save character names), James Bond describes being picked up by waterfront police in Vladivostok, and his prints being "belinographed" to Moscow, after his mission to Japan. The term is obvious enough to convey its meaning, at least.