1881

Paris World’s Fair on Visual Communication, The Electrician magazine: “Mr. Shelford Bidwell’s telephotographer even gives us hope that sooner or later we will be able to see by telegraph and behold our distant friends through dark cables, despite the curvature of the earth and the impenetrability of matter. With a telephone in one hand and a telephotograph in the other, the absent lover will be able to whisper sweet phrases in the ear of his beloved and at the same time see the rapt expression on her face, no matter how many lands and seas separate these lovers.