Person:Rebecca Fisher (5)

No death record was found in a search of Ingham County vital records.

From Cathy Morse

Rebecca Fisher's father was Samuel Fisher. Her mother was Ulyssa Morse, a sister of Samuel Morse inventor of Morse Code. The Fishers lived in Titisville, [Crawford County] Penn. where the first oil well was discovered Aug. 27, 1859 in U.S.A. They owned some of the stock.

The full name of the fax machine is the "telefacsimile" machine. A facsimile is "an exact copy". A fax machine reads an image from paper, then sends the image over a telephone line, where another fax machine receives it and prints out a copy.

Transmitting images using telephone lines did not become common practice until the late 1980's, but the technology dates back to the nineteenth century.

In 1843 in England, Alexander Bain (1818-1903) invented an early fax machine. His invention had two pens that were connected to two pendulums. The pendulums were joined to a wire, which could reproduce writing on an electrically-conductive surface.

In 1862, the Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli built a machine he called a "pantelegraph" (the word is a combination of "pantograph", a tool that copies drawing, and "telegraph", a machine that sends messages over a wire.) His machine was based on Bain's invention, but also included a "synchronizing apparatus" to help two machines work together. His pantelegraph was used by the French Post & Telegraph agency between Paris and Marseilles from 1856 to 1870.