# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/giovanni-caselli
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:25:09.002Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/giovanni-caselli"
name: "Giovanni Caselli"
slug: "giovanni-caselli"
description: "Giovanni Caselli was an Italian priest, inventor, and physicist. He studied electricity and magnetism as a child which led to his invention of the pantelegraph, the forerunner of the fax machine. The world's first practical operating facsimile machine (\"fax\") system put into use was by Caselli. He had worldwide patents on his system. His technology idea was further developed into today's analog television."
tagline: "Italian abbot, physicist and inventor (1815-1891)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giovanni_Caselli.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1815-05-25"
deathDate: "1891-10-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.39
  momentum:             1.99561403508772
  historical:           13.75302533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A"
    title: "جيوفاني كازيلي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "جيوفانى كاسيلى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli_(Physiker)"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli (Physiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli_(inventor)"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli (inventor)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%DB%8C_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%DB%8C"
    title: "جووانی کاسلی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli_(abate)"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli (abate)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Caselli_(fysiker)"
    title: "Giovanni Caselli (fysiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178343"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump