Huge Trek nerd here. In the original canon, the first transporters did destroy the original and create a copy at the new destination. Eventually technology improved and they were able to convert your matter directly to energy, send out the energy as a beam, and recreate the original form.
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Huge Trek nerd here. In the original canon, the first transporters did destroy the original and create a copy at the new destination. Eventually technology improved and they were able to convert your matter directly to energy, send out the energy as a beam, and recreate the original form.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Matter_stream
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