One of Sigmund Freud's early patients rushed out into an Austrian afternoon on her way to meet her best friend at a coffee house.
Over Cappuccino and Viennese pastries, she suddenly burst out crying.
Her friend begged her to share what was wrong.
"Oh, it's just terrible," she wailed. "Today the doctor told me I'm in love with my father, and. . .and. . .and you know, he's a married man!"
U.S. inland radio facsimile transmissionIn 1923, the first radio facsimile transmission made in the U.S. to a distant point sent a photgraphic image from the U.S. Navy Radio Station NOF, at Anacostia, D.C., to the Evening Bulletin in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A few months earlier, on 3 Oct 1922, photographs had been sent as a facsimile transmission over a city telephone line within Washington D.C., using a photographic plate to record the signal received at the radio station NOF, attended by Commander Albert Hoyt Taaylor, U.S.N.«* |
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