ocr: Right 1843 Commentary In 1843, Alexander Payne Scotland) invented the racsimile. Its first business application in modern public communications came in 1925 in the US. In Japan, use of the racsimile began with the development of photographic transmission devices, and was limited to special fields such as news media and meteorological applications. The present popularity of the fax began with the introduction in 1972 of devices that can use ordinary phone lines. Incidentally, the invention of the telephone came in the year 1876.
