Telautograph
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The telautograph is an ancestor of the modern fax machine. It transmits electrical signals representing the position of a pen or tracer at the sending station to repeating mechanisms attached to a pen
The inventor Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray's Telautograph Transmitter and Receiver in use
Foster Ritchie's Telautograph Receiver and Transmitter c. 1904
Sample work of telautograph
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire occurred in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, a borough of New York City, on Saturday, March 25, 1911. The fire was the deadliest industrial disaste
Telautograph
…similar setup in Chicago Union Station remained in operation into the 1970s. A telautograph was used in 1911 to warn workers on the 10th floor about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that had broken out two floors below. An example of a telautograph machine writing script can be seen in the 1956 movie Earth vs the Flying Saucers as…
Image of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire on March 25 1911
A horse-drawn fire engine on the way to the burning factory
A photograph of the building's south side, which ran the day after the disaster in the March 26, 1911, issue of The New York Times. Windows marked by an X are those from which 50 women jumped.
62 people jumped or fell from windows.