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"I was wholly addicted to watching Kojack, for as long as it was on television."
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![]() This is a very early reference to this idea; there are earlier descriptions as linked below.
This technovelgy item has been accomplished many times over the years; today's version of teleconferencing over the Internet via webcams is just the latest version. Curiously, it has never really caught on with the public; I wonder if people really want to be seen.
Take a look at this representation of the Telephot on an early cover for the novel.
![]() Constantin Perskyi had coined the word "television" in a paper read to the International Electricity Congress at the International World Fair in Paris on 24 August 1900. The first person to use the word "Telephot", as far as I know, was Auguste Vautier-Dufour, who created a compact "telephoto" camera and patented it in 1901:
An ardent photographer of the night skies and a lover of telephotography, Auguste Vautier-Dufour had been busy experimenting since the 1890s. After a series of unsuccessful trials, he finally had some good results, some of which were thanks to advice from Emile Schaer, associate astronomer at the Geneva Observatory; this allowed him to reduce the bulk of a camera equipped with a very long focal-length lens. 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. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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