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Video telephone 90 years ago today
Public demonstration of (one-way) video telephone occurred this date in 1927, when then Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover made the call from Washington DC to AT&T in New York, where it was viewed by AT&T executives.
http://www.corp.att.com/history/television/ http://www.earlytelevision.org/bell_labs.html Looks like about 50 scanning lines (assuming they were horizontal). Does anyone know the actual count? [Update of a thread originally posted 4 years ago] |
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