In a message dated 7/31/2006 10:28:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, john9ten at pacbell.net writes: > Then I read the entire article, and was very surprised to read that in the > 1860's already there was a kind of functioning facmile transmission that > operated using tinfoil! > ********** do you have the exact URL for this article? Ironically, Edison used tinfoil to prevent the (underlying) wax from clogging the recording stylus. allen www.phonobooks.com