Well before the internet made it a zephyr to instantly commit a pic from one side of the human race to the other , this ancient - look machine , the United Press International UPI Model 16 - S , scanned black and white photos and mail them across the earth via sound seam .
Used by tidings agencies from the early 1970s all the way up until the other ‘ XC , the UPI Model 16 - S slowly scan a smuggled and snowy picture spinning on a brake drum using a laser , and than sent that analogue data along , line - by - crinkle , over phone lines that pre - dated high - speed vulcanized fiber oculus .
Scanning and sending a black and lily-white photo take about eight or nine minute , assuming you had a reliable phone connectedness . And when color models were later introduce , that leap to a minimum of 26 second to conduct each image .
Over time the engineering used in these types of automobile improved with firm scanning times , better simulacrum quality , and contagion that take just a mates of instant . But when digital cameras eventually arrived , they made these type of machines obsolete almost overnight . Sending a photo electronically was still no where close as fast as it is today , but since it was a perfect digital copy there was no loss in quality , and it did n’t matter if it was black and white or color .
[ YouTube – Esteban Mac AllisterviaThe Dallas Morning NewsviaPetaPixel ]
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