Wirephoto

Modern · Communication · 1907

TL;DR

Wirephoto - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Wirephoto - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Nernst lamp Selenium photocell Commercial telegraphy

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Wirephoto:

Mechanical television Fax machine Radiofax

Independent Emergence

Evidence of inevitability—this invention emerged independently in multiple locations:

France

Parallel development

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Convergent Evolution

Related Inventions

Selenium photocell Mechanical television Commercial telegraphy Radiofax Fax machine Nernst lamp

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Communication

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