Historic Moments on Instagram: "Before the internet, newspapers used a fascinating process called wired photo transmission to send images across long distances 📰⚡ A photo would be scanned by a special machine that turned its light and dark tones into electrical signals. Those signals were then sent through telephone or telegraph lines to another machine that reassembled them into a printed image on the other end. Used widely by news agencies from the 1930s onward, this innovation meant photos c