Y2K Diary [ 19.02.00 ] 50. The Belinograph Sending pictures over the phone line since 1910. 1897: Edouard Belin, a French engineer, began to experiment with facsimile transmission.  He then researched the history of radio and the related media services of telegraphy, telephony, facsimile, television, photography and cinema. The project will also develop an on-line resource centre based on the belinograph.  Without a shadow of a doubt the direct ancestor of the internet. My grand-mother used it in the 1920's to send images and moving images through the phone line. Though, apparently for moving images it was a nightmare as it always took for ever to reverse the process back into the moving pictures. NP related links: Belin.  An historical timeline. [ submit entry ]      [ contents ]      [ previous ]  [ next ]