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'''Alexander Stanhope St George''' (8 July 1848 - 12 October 1917) was a British [[inventor]] and [[researcher]]. |
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Employed by [[Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope]] (inventor of the [[Stanhope]] lens) <ref>Scott, J. (2007), http://stanhopes.info/who_made_stanhopes.html [http://stanhopes.info/who_made_stanhopes.html]</ref>, Alexander Stanhope St George is most famous for creating the [[Telectroscope]]. |
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Unlike many other [[scientists]] who have claimed to have invented a [[Telectroscope]], without any real evidence to verify their claims, Alexander Stanhope St George is widely recognized in many parts of the world as the [[inventor]] of the only [[Telectroscope]] that would have worked <ref>Likopoulos, A. (1999), “A History of Moving Images”, University of Athens, 45-46 [http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:rxyd76CSLUHG:classicreader.com/read.php/sid.9/bookid.4069]</ref>. |
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Alexander Stanhope St George’s most ambitious claim is that one day there would be a series of tunnels, which would allow visual [[communication]] between people in one country with those in another, using his [[invention]]. |
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This was of course a bold claim made in a time long before [[television]] or the [[internet]]. However, if recent claims by Alexander Stanhope St George’s great-grandson, artist Paul St George {{fact}}, are to be believed then this may have been much more than an ambitious prediction. It is claimed by Paul St George, that his great grandfather had in fact begun to have a [[tunnel]] dug under the [[Atlantic]] in the hope of creating the largest ever [[Telectroscope]], which would allow visual [[communication]] between [[England]] and [[America]]. |
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