1. A working fax machine (pantelegraph) was invented ~1856.
2. Lincoln died in 1865.
3. The samurai were disbanded in the Meiji Restoration in 1867-8.

Conclusion:
There was a 9 year period (1856-1865) where a samurai could have sent a fax to Abraham Lincoln.
Reposted from c0nc0rdance
🧪Great example of counterintuitive history:
The 1st fax machine ('pantelegraph') was developed by Italian physicist Giovanni Caselli in 1856, 20 years before Bell's telephone.

Tsar Nicholas & Emperor Napoleon III purchased licenses.
It took 108 seconds per page.

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