Nazis introduced videophones in 1936

Although the video quality was not amazing (not HD for sure) as your can imagine, they still had to use the cable telephone to hear each other. But at least they were able to see each other. The size of the image was 45x45cm and image has 180 pixels, which is not very great according to today’s standards. To have a better understanding, one can say that the images were like the tiny embedded clips from the early Internet of the 90’s.

Though it is remarkable to even imagine the video call technology in 30’s, however it was made possible by the Nazis. The front of the device used to make and receive the call seemed high-tech and stylish, but the actual ‘brain’ of the device was on the other side of the wall. The processing unit was huge and heavy duty, quiet inline with the technology of 30’s. The device was not portable of course and not inexpensive at all, however, it certainly worked and amazed everyone, the Mirror reports.


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