Fax would hit the market. Xerox continued to refine the fax machine for years after their ground-breaking first machine. In later years it would be combined with copier equipment to create the hybrid machines we have today that copy, scan and fax. Some of the lesser known capabilities of the Xerox fax technologies included their Ethernet enabled Fax Services on their 8000 workstations in the early 1980s. Prior to the introduction of the ubiquitous fax machine, one of the first being the Exxon Qwip in the mid-1970s, facsimile machines worked by optical scanning of a document or drawing spinning on a
Elton Fax featured in a solo art show at the offices of the "Baltimore Afro-American" newspaper. Elton Fax taught art at the Harlem Community Art Center in New York beginning in 1934, and was involved with the Works Project Administration Federal Art Project. Fax was an illustrator for magazines such as "Weird Tales", "Astounding Science-Fiction", "Complete Cowboy", "Real Western", "Story Parade", "Child Life", and "All Sports". In 1942 he began a newspaper comic named "Susabelle", and later an illustrated history panel, "They'll Never Die", both carried in African-American newspapers. He also created greeting card illustrations for The Links. Books written and illustrated