Fax Site using the Courier satellite. Radio fax is still in limited use today for transmitting weather charts and information to ships at sea. Also, it is also widely used within the medical field to transmit confidential patient information. In 1964, Xerox Corporation introduced (and patented) what many consider to be the first commercialized version of the modern fax machine, under the name (LDX) or Long Distance Xerography. This model was superseded two years later with a unit that would truly set the standard for fax machines for years to come. Up until this point facsimile machines were very expensive and
Elton Fax by Fax included such titles as "West African Vignettes" (1960),"Contemporary Black Leaders" (1970), "Seventeen Black Artists" (1972), "Garvey" (1972, a biography of Marcus Garvey), "Through Black Eyes: Journeys of a Black Artist to East Africa and Russia" (1974), "Black Artists of the New Generation" (1977), and "Hashar" (1980). In addition, Fax illustrated books by children's authors such as Georgene Faulkner and Verna Aardema, and created dust jacket art for various publishers, as well as a literacy pamphlet for the Pan American Union. Fax toured Latin America in 1955, and was a lecturer in East Africa in 1963, both times sponsored