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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 99, 29 September 1877, Page 3

And ? now the telephone is outdone. A New ' York electrician claims" to' have m Vented what he calls an electroscope, by which friends thousands of miles apart^lhore or less — can see each other. It is constructed, according to the inventor, upon the plan of the opticnerye, radiates into almost innumerable fibres a-s it ; approaches the eye, each fibre being sensitive to >;& certaihVlight ray frofe ; thfe-Object ; whpse.: image is formed upon- the'; retina. Copying . ;this arrangement .the inventor has a ,r_eceiying box sensitively piercedvby hundreds, of the finest wu*es which run- togethep and foi"m"a cable. Each wire answers to one of the nerve fibres of the eye taking a point of light from the. object m the receiving \ di, and transmitting over the' cable to the other end, where the. wires radiating into a box filled with gas or ether,' the nature of vrhiiih ii kepi; secVet,%pbn which the tranii-J mited rays of light are thrbw^it; produce aphantom; the „ exact counterpart of the ;osject'a't the further eiid : of the wire." The" inventoi' 1 ' has not yet completed a working model, b'utihe has abundant eonMeiice ifi ?! ixrs^iep^-^Zj^hauge; ' . - ."'