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- Sep. 20, 1993: Died:Austin Cooley
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Sep. 20, 1993 Clinton's Health Plan
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 29
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- <p> DIED. AUSTIN COOLEY, 93, inventor; in Sequim, Washington. A
- key figure in the development of the now indispensable fax machine,
- Cooley held more than 75 patents on devices for the electronic
- transmission of photos, maps and X rays. He did much of his
- work for the New York Times, from the transmission of photos
- depicting dirigible-explosion survivors in 1935 to the first
- transmission of whole newspaper pages via the Telstar satellite
- in 1962. The college dropout's laconic reaction to that famous
- fax now reads like a summation of his entire career: "There's
- nothing wrong that we can't fix."
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