You’d think that with emails, PDF files, and the internet in general, the fax machine would share shelf space with the typewriter, floppy disks, and that one boxed copy of Flash. But, despite the relentless march of technology and its numerous casualties, the fax machine soldiers on in countless offices around the globe. Fax machines were a big deal back in their heyday of the 1980s and 1990s, but the underlying technology is much older than that. In fact, fax machines share their origins with the electric telegraph of the mid-1830s, and the first patent for a rather rudimentary version