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On 01/07/07, Roger and Allison Kulp wrote: > http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/Edison_Telephonoscope.htm That's the picture. I have a better reproduction in a Dover book. Du Maurier is an interesting artist. > Not quite as early as 1857, but there is a drawing by George du > Maurier in the Punch Almanac for 1879 showing the use of a wide-screen > videophone for talking to your relatives in Australia. The screen is > about 8 feet wide, and both the parents in England and the daughter in > the Antipodes are talking into speaking tubes. > > The caption is "Edison's Telephonoscope (transmits light as well as > sound)". > > Du Maurier might have been disapointed to find that as late as 2007 > most phones are still sound only, and the screens are tiny. > Regards -- Don Cox [log in to unmask]