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 This model was superseded two years later with a unit that would truly set the standard for fax machines for years to come.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 Elton Fax to the "Heritage Hall" at Livingstone College in 1973. Fax was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony in 1968. He received a Rockefeller Foundation Research Grant in 1976 to travel to Italy. Other awards included the Coretta Scott King Award from the American Library Association (1972) and the Chancellor's Medal from Syracuse University in 1990. In 1929, Elton Fax married Grace Elizabeth Turner. They had three children together. The Fax family lived in Mexico for several years in the 1950s, and traveled widely. He married as his second wife Elizabeth V. Murrell, a social worker. Elton Fax