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Auction: SW1012 - Bonds & Shares Certificates of the World
Lot: 89

Wireless Pictures (1928) Limited 'The Fultograph'. Certificate 3'000 Shares. 1. July 1929. Nr. 6056. The world's first fax machine: The fultograph was an early, clockwork image-receiving device. It took signals from the loudspeaker socket of a radio receiver and used an electrochemical process to darken areas of sensitised paper wrapped on a rotating drum. Produced by the american inventor Dr. Otho Fulton (1868-1938), the system was used briefly in the late 1920s to broadcast images to homes by radio. A 9 x 12 cm picture was transmitted in four minutes. The machines themselves were expensive (£22 15s 0d in 1928) and required a good receiver to operate. (wikipedia). VF.

Estimate
SFr150 to SFr250