Frederick Bakewell – Image Telegraph Inventor
Frederick Bakewell (29 Sept 1800 – 26 Sept 1869
) was a physicist credited with improving the facsimile machine invented by Alexander Bain in 1842.
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Life
Bakewell was born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, and later lived in Hampstead, Middlesex until the time of his death.
Facsimile Improvement – Image Telegraph
Bakewell’s most known invention was the “image telegraph” – in many ways very similar in function to today’s fax machine.
It was an improvement on Alexander Bain’s system, replacing the pendulums with synchronized rotating cylinders.
With the image telegraph, the system used a metal stylus with a screw thread traveling across the cylinder as it turned. At the receiver, a similar stylus marked chemically impregnated paper with electric current.
Although Bakewell’s machine never became a commercial success, it was an important step before the introduction of Giovanni Caselli’s pantelegraph.
Further Reading on Frederick Bakewell:
Frederick Bakwell Ancestry Information
More Biographies on Fax Inventors:
- Alexander Bain – Experimental Fax Machine between 1843 and 1846
- Arthur Korn – Developed Fax Machine for Transmitting Photographs
- Edouard Belin – Inventor of the Bélinographe
- Frederick Bakewell – Improved Bain’s Facsimile Machine
- Giovanni Caselli – Inventor of the Pantelegraph. Sent images 800km across telegraph wires 9 years before Alexander Graham Bell’s Telephone Patent
- Herbert E. Ives – Sent first color fax
- Richard H. Ranger – Invented first Transatlantic Radio Fax
- Rudolf Hell – Invented the Hellschreiber
- Shelford Bidwell – Research in the field of “Telephotography”
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