Yes it is amazing - and it was suggested yesterday & I poo-pooed it. :o/ Talk about way ahead of our times. Jim - with egg on face rwalker wrote: >Isn't this amazing? And we think we are so smart with our internet and >e-mail and all. The telegraph was every bit as exciting at its time as >what we are doing online today. Imagine what people thought when the >first words and first pictures were sent via telegraph/telephone line. >Every bit as awed as when we got our first email or family photo. >"rwalker" > > > >>Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:57:51 -0700 >>From: "A. Mason Design" <amason@redshift.com> >>Subject: Re: [NORCAL] Newspaper Technology - 1900 >> >>Hi Jim, >> >>Your question intrigued me and this is what I've found. >> >>In 1881 Selford Bidwell sent an electronic image by telegraph using a >>photoelectric cell. The following year, 1882, in England, first >>wirephotos (a photograph transmitted by electrical signals over >>telephone wires. >> >>I looked at the page you referenced and they were rotogravure images, >>not photographs, so they would have been easier to send over wires. >> >>Google Book Search turned up "The American Wire Service" by Richard >>Allen Schwarzlose. URL below. >> >><http://books.google.com/books?id=iRb2atvpVxkC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=%22history+of+wire+services%22&source=web&ots=DB7RqF_Hzq&sig=igcJ0IdEm1LnTkIZzxHDmK7j11Y&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result> >> >>The URL below does not specifically state anything about the >>transmission of images but is an interesting timeline regarding national >>and international news coverage in the 1800s: >> >><http://www.ap.org/pages/about/history/history_first.html> >> >>Another interesting book from Google Book Search is"A History of the >>Book in America" by Scott E. Casper, Jeffery D. Groves. Ther is a >>section in there on the development of the "illustrated press." >> >><http://books.google.com/books?id=j33i-WMOp1YC&pg=PA241&lpg=PA241&dq=%22Associated+Press%22+history+illustrations&source=web&ots=nBCx4O-pDI&sig=5zloEZrjlxp3f9zhamoaXXnNDGU&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result#PPA248,M1> >> >>It's an interesting subject. >> >>How this helps, >>Anita C. >>Monterey County >> >>James R. Smith wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>>I was looking at a series of graphic images from the SF Call printed on >>>>the morning of Jan 31, 1900. They depicted a shooting scene in >>>>Frankfort, KY plus images of the victim, the newly elected governor of >>>>Kentucky and two other men associated with the campaign. The shooting, >>>>serious but not at that time fatal occurred at 11:00 a.m. on the 30th. >>>> >>>>How did the Call get images of the scene and individuals in less than 24 >>>>hours? >>>> >>>> > > > > > >----------------------------------------- >Visit: >NORCAL LIBRARY http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~yvonne/norcallib.html >NORCAL Genealogy Resource Center http://www.sfgenealogy.com/norcal/resourcecenter/toc.htm >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORCAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- James R. Smith Author: San Francisco’s Lost Landmarks ISBN: 1884995446 www.HistorySmith.com <http://www.historysmith.com/>