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Old 04-07-2013, 09:50 AM
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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?
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