“Hump Haven” was a bar built in 1944 by members of the Air Transport Command (ATC) using the roomy fuselage of a crashed Commando (41-24743) in Yunnanyi, China.
May 19: in 1924, AT&T demonstrated long-distance telephotography, now known as fax, with the transmission of pictures over telephone wires between Cleveland and New York.
Commercial service began in a handful of cities the following year. For many decades, telephotography had one major use — sending wire photos of distant events for use by newspapers.
In the early 1970s at my first job we often send photos to the Associated Press or Time Magazine via an acoustic coupler on on phone. Put the handset in place, and punch transmit on the machine and it would send a 8x10 print to them.
