Telectroscope

For the similarly named scientific instrument of the 17th century, see Electroscope.

Telectroscope technical illustration in Scientific American Supplement No. 275, April 9, 1881

The telectroscope (also referred to as 'electroscope') was the first conceptual model of a television or videophone system. The term was used in the 19th century to describe science-based systems of distant seeing.

The name and its concept came into being not long after the telephone was patented in 1876, and its original concept evolved from that of remote facsimile reproductions onto paper, into the live viewing of remote images.[1]

  1. ^ Brian, Winston (1986). Misunderstanding media. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 41–43. ISBN 0710200021. OCLC 15222064.