Faxed: The Rise and Fall of the Fax Machine

The intriguing story of the rise and fall—and unexpected persistence—of the fax machine illustrates the close link between technology and culture.

Co-Winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History of the Business History Conference

Faxed is the first history of the facsimile machine—the most famous recent example of a tool made obsolete by relentless technological innovation. Jonathan Coopersmith recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of the device from its origins to its workp...