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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 214, 10 September 1877, Page 4

Au I now the telephone is outdone. A New York electrician claims to have invented what he calls an electroscope, by means of which friends thousands of miles apart — more or less — -can see each other. It is constructed, according to the inventor, upon the plan of the optic nerve, which radiates iuto almost innumerable fibres as it Approaches the eye, each fibre being sensitive to a certain light ray from the object whoso image is formed upou the retina. Copying this arrangement, the. inventor has a receiving box, sensitively pierced by hundreds of the Guest* wires, which run together and form a cable. Each wire answers t'i one of the nerve fibres of tlie eye, taking a point of light from object ia the receiving box, and transmitting over the cable to the other end, where the wires radiating into a box filled with gas or ether/ lhe nature of which ia kept a secre', upon which the transmitted rays of, light are thrown, produced a phantom the exact, counterpart of tbe oljdct at the further end of the wire. The inventor has not yet completed a working ij o el, but Id has abundant confidence iv bis theory.