FAX : facsimile technology and systems /
Kenneth R. McConnell, Dennis Bodson, Stephen Urban.
- Third edition
- xix, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Artech House telecommunications library .
Earlier ed. entered under: Bodson, Dennis.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Fax Basics -- What Fax Does -- How Facsimile Works -- Fax as a Tool for Home or Office -- Mail Delivery Changes in the 1990s -- From Drum Beats to Fax Beeps: Telecommunication Beginnings -- Ancient Telegraphy -- Water Telegraph -- Chappe's Optical Telegraph (Semaphore) -- Electrical Telegraphy -- Morse -- Facsimile Starts -- Bain -- Bakewell -- Caselli -- Photographs by Fax -- Korn -- Fax Development Problems -- Synchronization -- Telegraph and Telephone Lines -- Modulation -- After World War I -- Cable Fax -- Western Union -- RCA -- ATandT -- Early Fax Newsphoto Services -- Associated Press -- Acme -- New York Times -- World War II Era -- The Royal Tour -- The Plattsburg Maneuvers -- Military Fax (Ft. Monmouth) -- After World War II -- Fax Weather Map Broadcasting -- Remote Publishing -- Early Tests -- Newspaper-Page-Size Fax -- First Production Newspaper -- Newspapers by Fax -- High-Speed Fax -- Ultrafax -- Hogan Very High-Speed Facsimile System -- Xerox LDX -- A.B. Dick Videograph -- Matsushita Videofax -- Satellite Business Systems Batch Document System -- Radio Facsimile -- Connection to the PSTN -- Hush-A-Phone -- Dataphone -- Carterfone -- Bell Couplers -- FCC Part 68 Regulations -- Age of Incompatible Office Fax -- Group 1 Fax -- Group 2 Fax -- Development of Group 3 Standards -- Group 3 Facsimile -- Architecture -- Digital Image Compression -- Resolution and Pel Density -- One-Dimensional Coding Scheme: MH Code -- Two-Dimensional Coding Scheme: MR Code.