Herbert Hoover on videophone this day in 1927
Today is the 86th Anniversary of Herbert Hoover (Secretary of Commerce at the time) making a video phone call from Washington DC to New York on the AT&T mechanical TV scanner.
http://www.corp.att.com/history/television/ http://www.earlytelevision.org/bell_labs.html Looks like about 50 scanning lines (assuming they were horizontal). Does anyone know the actual count? |
That is really amazing. That Bell set is essentially a mechanical Plasma TV!
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