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TLS signed “N. Tesla,” one page, 8 x 10.5, personal letterhead, January 19, 1895. Letter to research engineer, patent attorney, and inventor Noah Steiner Amstutz, in full: “Your favor of January 16th with print executed upon your Artograph, has been duly received. I appreciate very much your kind attention in sending me the first print, which I will carefully preserve, because it appears to me remarkable. I hope that you are succeeding well, and that you will reap the benefits which your efforts evidently deserve.” In fine condition.
The recipient, Noah Steiner Amstutz (1864–1957), a research engineer, cartographer, and patent attorney from Cleveland, Ohio, is best remembered as a pioneer in the fields of television and facsimile transmission, whose 1896 copying telegraph system was a precursor to the fax machine. He named it the Amstutz Electro-Artograph. In 1888, Amstutz transmitted the first photograph by telegraph. To do so, he had to make his own instruments and furnish his own wires. He used a relief photograph mounted on a rotating drum under a recording point, which transmitted to a reostat the varying strength of the current. A receiving apparatus registered the impressions on another surface. In a 1925 meeting with the American Photo Engravers Association, Amstutz told the members that he had transmitted photographs seventy miles in five minutes.
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