A Proposal for Sending and Receiving Moving-Picture Signals between the Planets Earth and Mars by Means of Electric Telescope

Posted on Tuesday 15 June 2004 to Visions and Illusions

Here's a lovely piece of retro, a visualisation of the ideas of Charles Cros by American illustrator Roger Leyonmark. Leyonmark recalls reading Cros' Study on the Means of Communication with the Planets (1869) while at a library in Buffalo.

Cros, incidentally, didn't invent the Nipkow disk however even if he had he probably would have missed out on all the credit.


You can view the unbuggerized version here.