Picturephone
| Description: |
Would you like people to know you were answering the telephone in your pajamas? This 1970 telephone used a small camera at the top to record you and send it down the telephone line! AT&T introduced the phone in 1964 at the World’s Fair in New York City. Expensive, awkward and slow, the phone never came into popular use even though AT&T tried in 1964, 1970 and 1992! It was not until computers and high speed internet connections did the idea of Picturephone become popular as video conferencing. |
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| Source: |
http://www.digitalindy.org/cdm/ref/collection/tcm/id/706 |
| Collection: |
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis |
| Rights: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/; |
| Copyright: |
Creative Commons (CC By-SA 3.0); |
| Subjects: |
Telephone Telephone--History 1970s |
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