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- Research - Methods and Impact
Originally a theoretician, Giovanni Caselli was very interested in methods for transferring electric signals across the vast distances, so he spent a lot of time taking basic concepts Alexander Bain and Frederick Bakewell set and trying to improve on them with contemporary scientific solutions. His pantelegraph was pretty similar to Frederick Bakewell's, using a tin foil and a stylus that transferred the information of where the conductive ink is and where isn't into electromagnetic signals. He worked out a more reliable way of keeping the clockwork apparatus better in sync over longer distances, which resulted in his invention being used as a network between Paris and Marseille, London and Liverpool, and, eventually, Saint Petersburg and Moscow. His facsimile machine is the first one to be used to this extent and was used until the other facsimile inventions with were much more reliable took over.
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