()ĭespite its gee-whiz factor, many, including the folks at Bell Labs, seemed doubtful that the technology would come into wider use or be profitable any time soon, if ever.
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(edn.com) SPINNING WHEELS…Whirling metal discs, pictured at left, perforated with tiny holes, cast a series of horizontal beams of light across a viewer’s face (right), which were then transmitted to a receiver. At the time, AT&T, Bell’s parent company, was doubtful about television’s moneymaking potential. (/) BUT WILL IT SELL?… Herbert Hoover, then secretary of commerce, became the world’s first television personality in 1927 when his voice and face (inset) were transmitted to an audience at Bell Laboratories in New York City. At right ( click image to enlarge), a July 1930 article in Popular Science Monthly described how the transmitting apparatus worked. (att.com) DEFINITELY NOT HI-DEF…At left, this is most likely where Morris Markey sat for the demonstration of early video phone technology. It was the birthplace of talking movies, television, radar and the vacuum tube. TECHNOLOGY’S MATERNITY WARD…The original Bell Labs building at 463 West Street in New York. was still two decades away, but what Markey saw demonstrated in 1931 was a glimpse of the future, seeing and conversing with another man three miles away via a long wire that transmitted images from a fantastic array of spinning discs and neon tubes: The next time you complain about a boring Zoom meeting, think about Morris Markey’s visit to New York’s Bell Laboratories in the spring of 1931, when he marveled at what was, perhaps, the “apotheosis” of American industry: a two-way video telephone.
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