1. Giovanni Caselli was an Italian priest, inventor, and physicist.
26 Facts About Giovanni Caselli
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Giovanni Caselli studied electricity and magnetism as a child which led to his invention of the pantelegraph, the forerunner of the fax machine.
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Giovanni Caselli was a student and professor at the University of Florence in Italy.
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Giovanni Caselli started a technical journal that explained physics in layman's terms.
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Giovanni Caselli was born in the town of Siena, Italy on 25 April 1815.
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Giovanni Caselli became a student at the University of Florence and studied literature, history, science, and religion.
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Giovanni Caselli lived in Parma from 1841 to 1848 and was a teacher for the sons of the Marquis of the basilica of San Vitale.
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Giovanni Caselli participated in the insurrection of 1848 for the takeover of Duchy of Parma to be part of Piedmont, and was expelled from the area for his actions during this political violence.
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Giovanni Caselli returned to Florence where he became a professor in physics at the University of Florence in 1849.
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Giovanni Caselli studied electricity and magnetism, and he created the pantelegraph between 1855 and 1861, which was the precursor of the fax machine.
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When he was teaching at the University of Florence, Giovanni Caselli devoted much of his research to the technology of telegraphic transmission of sketches as well as handwritten words.
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Giovanni Caselli developed an electrochemical technology with a "synchronizing apparatus" to make the sending and receiving mechanisms work together that was far superior to any technology Bain or Bakewell had.
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Giovanni Caselli made a prototype of his system by 1856 and presented it to Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, in a demonstration that used telegraph lines.
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Giovanni Caselli perfected his pantelegraph between 1857 and 1861 in Paris under the leadership of French inventor and engineer Paul-Gustave Froment.
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The world's first practical operating facsimile machine system put into use was by Giovanni Caselli and utilized a scanning technology Froment devised.
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In 1858 Giovanni Caselli's improved version was demonstrated by French physicist Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel at the French Academy of Sciences in Paris.
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Giovanni Caselli had access to not only the French telegraph lines for his pantelegraph facsimile machine technology, but finances were provided by Napoleon.
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Giovanni Caselli did testing in 1863 between Paris and Marseille, a distance of 800 kilometres, which turned out to be successful.
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Giovanni Caselli applied in 1861 for a patent for his pantelegraphe in Europe and ultimately received European patent number 2,532 for the device.
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Giovanni Caselli applied for a patent in 1863 in the United States and it received patent number 37,563.
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Giovanni Caselli successfully demonstrated his pantelegraph at the 1861 Florence Exhibition to an audience which had the King of Italy, King Victor Emmanuel.
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Napoleon was impressed on how well Giovanni Caselli's apparatus worked and granted him permission to use the French telegraph lines for trials to develop out the machine further.
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In 1861, Giovanni Caselli officially registered his invention as a patent.
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Giovanni Caselli ultimately gave up on his invention and moved from Paris back to Florence, where he died in 1891.
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Giovanni Caselli's scanning technology became popular again in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Giovanni Caselli's system was used beginning in 1928 by French radio stations to broadcast scanned photographs over airwaves.