Connecting London to New York
May 29, 2008 - 88,873 views
Forgotten for the past century deep within the Atlantic Ocean, this amazing telescope was built by a Victorian inventor to build a friendship between two large cities: London and New York. The project was resurfaced and now everyone can wave to their friends in New York effortlessly. According to the Daily Mail, “the Telectroscope uses 6ft screens and a Jules Verne style telescope that gleams with brass and an array of Victorian dials. Participants peer into one end of the screen – and hey presto – they can see anyone standing at the other side.” Here is how the powerful telescope looks like.
photo credits: David Parker
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This is a hoax.
I wouldn’t call it a hoax. I’d call it art. Very cool.
Good bit of fun! You can see the camera in the inner telescope shots.
this is awesome, i wish i could see that for reals.
Wow very clever well done!
Creepy. What if you see someone committing a crime, like murdering someone?
This is a very cool idea. Obviously it’s done with cameras and probably an internet connection. You don’t seriously think they dug a big hole, or laid a 3,000mile optical pipe just for this?
In May-June 2008, artist Paul St George is exhibiting outdoor interactive video installations linking London and New York City in a fanciful simulated “telectroscope”. According to the installation’s invented back story, the device works using a transatlantic tunnel started by the artist’s fictional great-grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St. George The producer of this spectacle was the Artichoke company, who previously staged The Sultan’s Elephant in London.
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/
is it supposed to be periscope or telescope or microscope
teleroscrope makes it mix of latter 2
this is so fake my mom dragged me to go see this. made me wake up at 6 in the morning to get to brooklyn early and when i got there i saw a camera and the picture kept breaking up so it was a webcam of somesort. can’t believe i had to wake up at 6 am on a saturday to go see this crap. p.s. she still thinks its real lol
Vuntz I had a kendy store
Bizniss vas so bad
I asked mein vife vat to do
And dis is vat she said:
Take yourself some kerosene
Pour it on de floor
Take a match
Give a Scratch
No more kendy store, HEY!
Woo hoo! Go London art things!
This is too cool. What a great idea.
I’ve seen it up in London, and it’s pretty clever.
I think this is such a neat idea. I don’t care that it doesn’t ACTUALLY go all the way over, but I think it’s a neat way to connect people seperated by an entire ocean.
Pretty awesome. They should do something similar that goes to the pacific coast to Hawaii or Japan. Neat idea, rock on.
it’s not a hoax, but it is a misrepresentation. The term Telectroscope has been around for over a century, but is not attributed to Jules Verne (Louis Figuier, actually). And this machine hasn’t been around for any more than a year (not 100 years, like the article suggests).
According to Wiki:
In May-June 2008, artist Paul St George is exhibiting outdoor interactive video installations linking London and New York City in a fanciful simulated “telectroscope”. According to the installation’s INVENTED BACK STORY (my emphasis), the device works using a transatlantic tunnel started by the artist’s fictional great-grandfather, Alexander Stanhope St. George. The producer of this spectacle was the creative company Artichoke, who previously staged The Sultan’s Elephant in London.
… a piece of installation art with a visual high speed broadband link between London and New York City …