telephotography
Wirephoto, telephotography or radiophoto is the sending of photographs by telegraph, telephone or radio.
Key facts
- Industrial process.name
- Wirephoto
- Industrial process.image
- Belinograph BEP-2V - MfK Bern.jpg
- Industrial process.caption
- Belinograph BEP2V wirephoto machine by Édouard Belin, 1930
- Industrial process.type
- Physical, analogue
- Industrial process.sector
- Wire service, photojournalism
- Industrial process.technologies
- Telegraph, telephone, photography
- Industrial process.product
- Fax, photography
- Industrial process.companies
- Western Union, AT&T, Associated Press, others
- Industrial process.year
- 1920s
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- Subclass of
- transmission
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Wirephoto, telephotography or radiophoto is the sending of photographs by telegraph, telephone or radio.
== History == thumb|Édouard Belin and his Belinograph Technologically and commercially, the wirephoto was the successor to Ernest A. Hummel's Telediagraph of 1895, which had transmitted electrically scanned shellac-on-foil originals over a dedicated circuit connecting the New York Herald and the Chicago Times Herald, the St. Louis Republic, the Boston Herald, and the Philadelphia Inquirer.