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The fax machine was invented before the telephone.

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Samsung SF-3100 fax machine with inkjet printing on normal paper, 1999. The device has an integrated digital answering machine, a telephone and a copier function.
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1843

The fax machine was invented before the telephone.

Alexander Bain patented an early facsimile system in 1843, before Alexander Graham Bell's telephone patent in 1876. The comparison is between an early ancestor of fax and a landmark telephone patent, not between familiar office appliances.

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