Frederick Bakewell

Born in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, he eventually moved to Hampstead, Middlesex where he lived until his death.

[1] Bakewell's "image telegraph" had many of the features of modern facsimile machines, and replaced the pendulums of Bain's system with synchronized rotating cylinders.

A metal stylus driven by a screw thread traveled across the surface of the cylinder as it turned, tracing out a path over the foil.

Despite these problems, Bakewell's machine was capable of transmitting handwriting and simple line drawings along telegraph wires.

In 1861 the system was improved by an Italian priest, Giovanni Caselli who was able to use it to send handwritten messages as well as photographs on his pantelegraph.