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10 Historical Facts That Will Turn Your Perception of Time Upside Down

10.The first fax appeared 10 years before the telephone was invented.

 

In fact, facsimile devices appeared even earlier than that, yet the very first working commercial “fax” started working on the Paris-Lyon line in 1865, being electrical and mechanical. In just 10 years, in 1875, Thomas Watson and Alexander Bell demonstrated the operation of their first membrane telephone.

 

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