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How Photos Are Cabled Across Atlantic (1926 Illustration)

• retrac 9mo ago
  On 24 January 1926, the British ship SS Antinoe was damaged by a hurricane and was at risk of sinking. The American ship SS President Roosevelt assisted in rescue and docked in Plymouth, England. A photograph of the rescue was published in both London and New York the next day. The quickness with which this photo reached New York apparently caused such a sensation that Science and Invention magazine published the linked infographic on how it was accomplished; briefly: the image was sent as a digital bitmap by transatlantic telegraph cable.
  • fuzzfactor 9mo ago
    With 5 shades making up their greyscale. 30 minutes to encode, 90 seconds to decode.