From the accompanying illustration and title it will readily be seen
that rather good pictures were reproduced with pen and ink method in
1890.
The original of this picture was given the author by Mr. T. A.
Witherspoon, who at the time of the experiment (1900) was a principal
examiner in the U. S. Patent Office, and detailed in charge of the
Patent Office Exhibit at the Buffalo Exposition, where, also, these
machines were on exhibition.
It may be a coincidence of passing interest that from Cleveland
twenty-four years later the American Telephone and Telegraph Company
sent their first wire pictures.
[Illustration: 1910.—Baker. 1. PHOTOGRAPH WIRED FROM PARIS TO LONDON]