Fax the radio using this process. The Western Union "Deskfax" fax machine, announced in 1948, was a compact machine that fit comfortably on a desktop, using special spark printer paper. As a designer for the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), in 1924, Richard H. Ranger invented the wireless photoradiogram, or transoceanic radio facsimile, the forerunner of today’s "fax" machines. A photograph of President Calvin Coolidge sent from New York to London on November 29, 1924, became the first photo picture reproduced by transoceanic radio facsimile. Commercial use of Ranger’s product began two years later. Also in 1924, Herbert E. Ives of
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