'The Tiffany Effect': False anachronisms

[Chronos]

From the Interesting Facts thread a while back:

@WalterBishop

The last samurai died in the 1870s, Lincoln was assassinated in 1865, and early fax technology (the “printing telegraph”) was patented in 1843. This creates a 22-year window (1843–1865) where Abraham Lincoln could have received a fax from a samurai.