videophone n.

Mr. Tipper’s City office is as comfortably furnished in the year 199- as it might have been today. There is one conspicuous difference however; on Mr. Tipper’s desk is a ‘video[-]phone’ and the companion visualizing screen. The purpose of the apparatus is to enable the person at each end of the connection to see, as well as hear, all that occurs at the other end.

Television is the subject of a broadcast from Manchester on July 10. Listeners will have a glimpse of life in the year 1999, when such instruments as the videophone and visualising screen are among the usual appurtenances of a business office. A dramatist, who conceals his identity under the nom-de-plume of ‘Xlex’, has drawn upon his imagination and written a farcical comedy entitled ‘Televisionary Tactics’ showing the complications which may arise when people can see well as hear all that happens at either end of the videophone.

At this juncture their individual call sounded from the videophone and Walter flipped back the news lever to permit the incoming personal call to be made. The disc flashed brightly and the face of his father appeared.

He closed the door, fastened the three plasto-windows and put a tracer on his videophone.

He looked for a message that might have been left for him, a more complete and personal account than could be intrusted to the videophone exchange.

Toward evening he surrendered and called Maltzer’s apartment by videophone.

Ashley rose. ‘Where is your videophone?’ ‘In the next room.’

I put in a call to the Hardings again. They were back from Australia, apparently. Mr. Harding answered the video phone.

She activates her phone, which has turned into a modern wall-mounted videophone, and places the call. At once a smiling Liam appears on the screen.

The videophone was signaling an incoming call.