Flektoprime

Some things change, some stay the same.

A telephonoscope was an early concept of videophone and television, conceptualized in the late 1870s through the 1890s. It was mentioned in various early science fiction works such as Le Vingtième siècle. La vie électrique (The Twentieth Century: The Electrical Life) and other works written by Albert Robida. Robida also forecast the era of television broadcasts, with concept art drawn of a televised opera performance, and of a live battlefield report.