“Indeed I would,” I assured him.

“As the name indicates,” he continued. “The Teleview is a device for viewing things that happen at a distance.”

“Oh, I see,” I interposed. “It’s a television apparatus.”

“Not at all,” he corrected. “My invention is quite different from the regular televisor. To be sure, it is like television in the sense that it enables one to see things at a distance, but the essential difference between the Teleview and a Televisor is this: For Television it is necessary to have both a sending and a receiving apparatus and it cannot be used except in places where the object to be seen can be brought to the sending station or where the sending station can be brought to the event which is to be transmitted over a distance.

“The Teleview is not hedged in by any such restrictions. All the apparatus is concentrated at the receiving end. No sending set is required. Within certain limits, it may be focused on any spot so that one actually sees the events themselves, exactly as they happen.”

“Do you mean to tell me that you can focus your apparatus on something that is happening in India or Arabia and be able to see it here at the very instant it is taking place over there?” I asked doubtfully.

(The Phantom Teleview)

“The task you have outlined cannot be performed quite yet, for the simple reason that the places you mentioned are on the opposite side of the earth. However, even that can easily be accomplished when we have established stations at four or five strategic points around the earth, so that we will be able to pick up any event, no matter where it happens and relay it on to our other stations.