If you’re tech-savvy, you probably wonder why the fax machine is still a thing. In fact, one recent report showed that fax machine use has actually increased over the past year! Believe it or not, faxes were also adopted into commercial use earlier than telephones. The first design patent for an electronic device that transmitted pictures over wires was secured by a Scottish inventor, Alexander Bain, in 1843. Alexander Graham Bell didn’t patent the telephone until almost 25 years later! https://twitter.