The most intriguing part of the Brooklyn Bridge 125th birthday party announced last week is the mysterious Telectroscope, located at Brooklyn’s Fulton Ferry Landing near the bridge. In this case the ...

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Two weeks ago, during the festivities for the Brooklyn Bridge's 125th birthday, a mysterious and massive device was unveiled with little fanfare near the base of the bridge. Called the Telectroscope, ...

The Telectroscope is more than a giant telescope—looking through its lens in NYC, you can see all the way to London—and vice versa. These steampunk creations were unveiled today in the two cities to ...

TELECTROSCOPE ‘TUNNEL’ CONNECTS NYC TO LONDON IN ZERO MINUTES FLAT Here’s New York and London’s newest hot attraction: A “tunnel” under the Atlantic that connects the two cities. It’s called the ...

Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, forgotten for the best part of a century, lies a tunnel linking London and New York. It was built on the whim of a Victorian inventor with the aim of linking two great ...

Right, so Gothamist isn’t returning our phone calls, and we can only assume that they’re not going to take us up on our Telectroscope dance challenge. Chickens. Dance-off or not, we wanted to check ...

Hello, London! Jolly good show, New York! New Yorkers could see their English cousins across the pond Thursday without benefit of cable TV or video conferencing, courtesy of an unusual live optical ...

LONDON, England (CNN)-- As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of ...

Positioned at a spot near Tower Bridge, it allows people to watch their counterparts in New York, peering through an identical scope near the Brooklyn Bridge. It is the invention of Paul St George, a ...

It is the first prototype of a television system. Imaginary systems of distant seeing were also referred to as telectroscope in the 19th century. It is the first prototype of a television system.