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
This entry was posted on Thursday, May 29th, 2008 at 10:49 am and is filed under World News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. Posted by Kaleb Smith | May 30th, 2008 12:02 pm This is a hoax. Posted by [Love] This just made my day… « | May 30th, 2008 5:29 pm [...] More Pictures/Info Here and Here [...] Posted by Pat Carr | May 30th, 2008 10:46 pm I wouldn’t call it a hoax. I’d call it art. Very cool. Posted by SayBlade | May 31st, 2008 2:30 am Good bit of fun! You can see the camera in the inner telescope shots. Posted by sir jorge | June 7th, 2008 12:41 am this is awesome, i wish i could see that for reals. Posted by Bill | June 15th, 2008 11:51 pm Wow very clever well done! Posted by NiK | June 20th, 2008 6:55 am Creepy. What if you see someone committing a crime, like murdering someone? Posted by Me | July 9th, 2008 1:55 am 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? Posted by ZeroCool | July 16th, 2008 7:33 pm 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/ Posted by the blogodob | July 30th, 2008 10:54 pm is it supposed to be periscope or telescope or microscope Posted by hello | August 5th, 2008 1:04 am 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 Posted by Cocky J. Doody | August 5th, 2008 5:44 am Vuntz I had a kendy store Posted by Going to London | August 6th, 2008 4:34 am Woo hoo! Go London art things! Posted by Calgary Web Design | August 26th, 2008 4:15 am This is too cool. What a great idea. Posted by Ryan G | October 8th, 2008 7:27 pm I’ve seen it up in London, and it’s pretty clever. Posted by Patti | November 5th, 2008 3:24 am 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. Posted by jen | January 4th, 2009 11:47 pm 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: … a piece of installation art with a visual high speed broadband link between London and New York City … Post a comment | Recent posts
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