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facsimile  

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  • Facsimile, or the wired or wireless transmission of text, graphics, and photographs, has developed over more than a century into the office machines widely used by the 1970s. For a time before and after World War II, publishing newspapers with facsimile technology was a subject of extensive interest and many experiments. [Source: Encyclopedia of Journalism; Facsimile]

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