Ever wonder how photographs were transmitted to newspaper agencies back in the 1930s? If so, it’s called wirephoto, and photographs were first scanned using a photocell and then transmitted over traditional phone lines.
Even though Western Union transmitted the first photograph in 1921, it wasn’t until 1929 when Dr. Vladimir Zworykin, an electronics engineer working for Western Electric, came up with a system that sped things up significantly. Put simply, he was able to create a better reproduction and could transmit a full page in approximately one minute. During the 1930s, wirephoto machines of any reasonable speed were very large and expensive, thus only purchased by news media first like Associated Press. Why? It required a then extremely pricey dedicated phone line, but by the mid-1930s a technology battle began for less expensive portable wirephoto equipment that could transmit photos over normal phone lines.
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