The Electrograph

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Source: Everybody's Magazine, v.5, no.26 (October 1901) p. 397.


The Electrograph was an machine for "telegraphing pictures" and the exhibit demonstrated how a portrait could be sent by wire. Below is the telegraphing machine and an example of a picture sent from Chicago to New York.

The Electrograph




Picture sent by wire from Chicago to New York