Are a telegram and a fax the same thing?

Question

Are a telegram and a fax the same thing?

Answer 1

They are completely different:



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1. A telegram was something roughly equivalent to sending a text message back in the days before long distance telephone service became wide spread.



As it was originally developed in the 1840's, it worked something like this: You took your message to your local telegraph office. The guy there tapped your message on a "key" that caused a receiver in telegraph office in the city you were sending it to make some clicking sounds. The guy at the receiving end translated the message back into words, wrote them out on a form. The messages (telegrams) were then hand delivered by young men.



In the 1840's this was hot state of the art technology. It was also very expensive, so private messages tended to be urgent matters like, "Uncle Fred died, funeral on 23". They charged by the letter, so messages tended to be extremely short.



As technology improved, the system was automated. After the introduction of direct long distance telephone calls (~1960's) telegrams quickly died out.



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2. Fax machines are a pre-computer technology for sending copies of documents using telephone lines. You can still buy fax machines, but they have become a lot less common in the last 15 years, having been replaced by Internet technologies.



Using a fax machine is simple, you put the document in a paper feeder and dial the phone number of the fax machine you want to send it to. A copy of the document prints out on the receiving fax machine. The print out is called a "Fax". Or "fax" can be used as a verb, as in, "I will fax you the order."

Answer 2

Telegram Machine

Answer 3

The teaching received by JWs is the same the world over. All talks from the platform must conform to Society teaching. All public talks must be given from a Society outline (that is so exhaustive it leaves little room for anything else). Even answers given by JWs to questions from the platform must agree with what the Society has printed. No deviation from Society teaching is tolerated. The control exercised from headquarters is so strict that anyone holding to a differing belief on any point would either have to shut up and put up, or leave the organization. This uniformity, which JWs boast about publicly, is not biblical, as even a cursory reading of the New Testament shows. Paul said there were many 'disputable matters' that should not be argued over. The Watchtower Society tolerates no dispute about anything. Christian denominations agree solidly on the foundational, important doctrines of the faith, but they respect others distinctives. Cultural differences are also absorbed in healthy Christian circles. But if any JW disagrees about anything, he dare not voice it publicly, so the real answer to your Q is, 'Yes, but only publicly.'

Answer 4

No.



Telegram is physically delivered to a location



Fax is electronically sent to a phone number

Answer 5

telegram is not used anymore it was a method to send urgent messages quickly before text and e-mail where someone would run and carry it



fax you send document electronically kinda like email except it print off a copy from one location to another

Answer 6

many differences



1. delivery. telegrams were sent/received over private wiring, operator to operator. fax uses the public dialup telephone system.



2. content. telegrams are encoded text only, something like an email with no attachments. fax is a reproduced page, much like a photograph, so they can include diagrams and signatures.



3. security. telegrams are considered reliable because they have to be handled by operators, an indepenent third party that is not likely to deliberately change the message. before the US Army had its own secure satellites, they routinely used Western Union telegraph for communication of orders, and to prevent hoaxes the telegraph station was located on the military base. faxes can be used legally because it has the original signature on documents.



4. speed. telegrams, even those that employ telex automatic gear instead of morse code, are inheirently slow, partly because of the limited number of wires available for communications, and the number of relays that may be involved in an international delivery. Datarate is limited to the speed a person can type 120 words per minute max, 60 wpm average. In that same minute fax can deliver an entire page of text and public telephone lines are plentiful so they rarely choke off communication.



5. convenience. Telegram requires going to a station during business hours. Fax can be done from your own office or even home phone, 24/7.



6. cost. Telegrams charge per word, a simple message can run several dollars. Telegraphic speech is based on using the mininum possible words to convey a thought, it is similar to modern day cellphone texting. With long distance phone de-regulation a fax document can be sent using only a few cents worth of connect time.