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Telex was a major method of sending text messages electronically between businesses in the post–World War II period. Its usage went into decline as the fax machine grew in popularity in the 1980s.
Beginning in the 1980s, the ability to conduct high-speed digital communication—particularly fax transmission—over nonleased dial-up telephone lines led to a decline in the use of telex. Western Union sold its Telex network to AT&T in 1990, before declaring bankruptcy in 1993.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Telex development began in Germany in 1926, becoming an operational service in 1933 run by the Reichspost (the German imperial postal service). It had a speed of 50 baud—approximately 66 words per minute.
The advent of the telex machine in 1926 marked a revolutionary advancement in global communication. Invented in Germany by the pioneering physicist Dr. Erich Budelmann, this innovative technology enabled written messages to be rapidly transmitted across vast distances using existing telephone lines.
Telex starts as a way to distribute military messages, but soon becomes a world-wide network of both official and commercial text messaging that will persist in some countries into the 2000s. Telex uses teleprinters, which date back to the 1910s for use in telegraphy.
Telex starts as a way to distribute military messages, but soon becomes a world-wide network of both official and commercial text messaging that will persist in some countries into the 2000s. Telex uses teleprinters, which date back to the 1910s for use in telegraphy.
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From the telegraph to the telex: a history of technology, early networks and issues in France in the 19th and 20th centuries. An attempt to trace a history of the telex service in France would appear at first sight to be a relatively secondary and, on balance, quite simple undertaking.
