Edison’s Telephonoscope (Transmits light as well as sound)
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It will never catch on.
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Let us hope it will not catch on. This contraption will distract people from mathematics.
If anyone’s wondering what the text says:
Edison’s Telephonoscope (Transmits light as well as sound).
(Every evening, before going to bed, Pater- and Materfamilias set up an electric camera-obscura over their bedroom mantel-piece, and gladden their eyes with the sight of their Children at the Antipodes, and converse gaily with them through the wire.)
Paterfamilias (in Wilton Place) “Beatrice, come closer, I want to whisper.”
Beatrice (from Ceylon) “Yes, Papa dear.”
Paterfamilias “Who is that charming young lady playing on Charlie’s side?”
Beatrice “She’s just come over from England, Papa. I’ll introduce you to her as soon as the game’s over?”
Let us, indeed, hope it doesn’t catch on! Who needs such long-distance familial interference?
“Let us, indeed, hope it doesn’t catch on! Who needs such long-distance familial interference?”
Hear, hear! Where does one sign up to join the Mars colony?
Clever, but it will only ever be a toy for the wealthy, such a thing would never be affordable for the common folks.