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"I went [to the top of] Vehicle Assembly Building and looked down, and tears burst from my eyes. The size of this cathedral where the Rockets take off to go to the moon is so amazing."
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This remarkable story predicted not only television and instantaneous visual communication across the earth. It also predicts the couch potato.
Here's another quote that describes the device in greater detail:
Also, in 1879, an instrument called a telelectroscope was invented; this device transmitted a simple visual scene over phone lines. Here is how it was reported in Scientific American:
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