Teletype and Fax from the 1937 Bell System Telephone Almanac

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"The telegraph and teletypewriter (which transmits typed messages by wire) provide wings for the written words of men."

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"Thanks to modern science, photographs, drawings, writing and printed matter may be electrically transmitted in facsimile."

Also from the 1937 Telephone Almanac:

"In 1916, the average time required to establish a Bell System long distance connection was approximately eleven minutes. By 1926, it had been reduced to 5.6 minutes. The average for 1936 was 1.4 minutes.

"Local service has been speeded up until about ninety-seven per cent of all the local calls handled by Bell System operators are answered by them within ten seconds."