Transmitting photos in 1926: This picture of the sinking of the British liner Antinoe was cabled from London and transmitted from New York to Chicago over the wires of American...

tinosa Loc: Grand Rapids Michigan

This picture of the sinking of the British liner Antinoe was cabled from London and transmitted from New York to Chicago over the wires of American Telephone and Telegraph company undergoing some interesting transitions along the way.

Alexb1949

Thanks for the history lesson...very interesting!

Elliott Design Loc: West Tennessee

Pretty technical stuff for 1929, primitive by today's standards but took some real mental power to conceive and construct the equipment back then. Thanks for sharing.

Ambrose Loc: North America

Wow! While primative, certainly brilliant for its time! Thanks for the post.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

Primitive for 1929, but the basic punch card technique dates back much further:
"In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a power loom that could base its weave (and hence the design on the fabric) upon a pattern automatically read from punched wooden cards, held together in a long row by rope. Descendents of these punched cards have been in use ever since"
http://www.cs.kent.edu/~rothstei/10051/HistoryPt2.htm

Jacquard Looms produced those beautiful multicolored woven tapestries that you may have seen in museums. Jacquard techniques could have made a colored tapestries of the sinking ship. (several months later)

twowindsbear

It seems to be an 'ancestor' of the fax machine.

lovesphotos Loc: Colorado and Arizona

Fascinating. It is foretelling of what will today's technology be 100 years from now.

GoofyNewfie Loc: Kansas City

Very interesting!
Reminds me of when I transmitted photos to UPI
(United Press International) back in the '70's.

Something else that caught my eye...
Looks like a faux HDR going on here:

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

tinosa wrote:

This picture of the sinking of the British liner Antinoe was cabled from London and transmitted from New York to Chicago over the wires of American Telephone and Telegraph company undergoing some interesting transitions along the way.

What a system! It's amazing that it worked. Today people post pictures on UHH and everywhere else almost instantaneously.

kegler Loc: N. E. Indiana

The military used punched tape for messaging for many years after that. It was a very fast way to transmit a message.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

I am mature enough to say that the programing courses i took in the late 1950's utilized both tape and cards to feed information to the huge vacuum tube computer. The coding was Algol, Fortran, Migol. Indeed,as Lovesphotos said, what will our primitive equipment look like in 100 years. I still have some photos taken with a 1 mpix camera, well I guess it depends on what happens to civilization.... Some politicians want us to go back to the good ol' days... pass the tape, please.

normsImages Loc: Alabama for now

twowindsbear wrote:

It seems to be an 'ancestor' of the fax machine.

Not really the fax machine dates back to 1850 before the telephone in 1876

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

dpullum wrote:

I still have some photos taken with a 1 mpix camera...

I remember when a photo mag announced the first 1MP camera.

Wall-E Loc: Phoenix, AZ

dpullum wrote:

I am mature enough to say that the programing courses i took in the late 1950's utilized both tape and cards to feed information to the huge vacuum tube computer. The coding was Algol, Fortran, Migol. Indeed,as Lovesphotos said, what will our primitive equipment look like in 100 years. I still have some photos taken with a 1 mpix camera, well I guess it depends on what happens to civilization.... Some politicians want us to go back to the good ol' days... pass the tape, please.

I was still using 'Hollerith' cards and paper tape into the 70's. And KSR33's.

twowindsbear

As I understand it - there was an entire system of punched paper tape. The punched tape could be fed into a teletype machine to be transmitted either by wire or radio, the receiver could then re-punch another tape and use the new tape to, for instance, control a linotype machine to set the text for a newspaper.