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| Television 'Phone | ||
| A video call. |
| The television ’phone called my name. I immediately hurried to the booth and saw General Loomis, the Commander-in-Chief of the American and Caucasian Armies, standing in his helicopter headquarters. He seemed haggard and worn. “How much longer, Johnson?” he asked...
 ('Television Phone' from 'The Sword and the Atopen' by Greenfield) I felt a hand laid on my shoulder. Dr. Rutledge, my science chief, had stepped into the booth behind me and overheard the conversation. “General Loomis,” Dr. Rutledge spoke, looking for all the world like a patriarch of olden times, “until five minutes ago what Johnson has just said would have sealed our fate." |
| Technovelgy from The Sword and the Atopen,
by Taylor H. Greenfield. Published by Amazing Stories in 1930 Additional resources -
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Compare to the detailed article about the telephonoscope from Le Vingtième Siècle (The Twentieth Century) (1882) by Albert Robida, the phonotelephote from In the Year 2889 (1889) by Jules Verne, the video communicator from The Machine Stops (1909) by E.M. Forster, the zoom call visaphone system from John Jones's Dollar (1915) by Harry Stephen Keeler, the videophone from The Golden Girl of Munan (1928) by Harl Vincent, the optophone from Too Many Boards! (1931) by Harl Vincent and the opti-phone from The Impossible World (1939) by Eando Binder.
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