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Frederick Bakewell made several improvements on Bain's design and demonstrated a telefax machine.

Frederick Bakewell

He introduced the first commercial telefax service between Paris and Lyon some 11 years before the invention of workable telephones.

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Frederick Collier Bakewell (29 September 1800 – 26 September 1869) was an English physicist who improved on the concept of the facsimile machine introduced by Alexander Bain in 1842 and demonstrated a working laboratory version at the 1851 World's Fair in London.

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Later, in 1861, the system was improved by an Italian priest, Giovanni Caselli who was able to use it to send handwritten messages as well as photographs on his pantelegraph.

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