伦敦架起巨型望远镜可穿过大西洋看纽约
作者：刘妍
2008-05-23 15:03:58
关键词： 望远镜 巨型视频望远镜
巨型望远镜的发明者保罗-圣-乔治
纽约游客向伦敦问好
据英国《每日电讯报》报道，英国的一家公司最近在伦敦和美国的纽约同时建造了两台巨型望远镜，人们可以通过这两台望远镜穿过大西洋互相看见对方，并彼此问候，这使得两座遥远的城市被拉得如此接近。
望远镜借高清摄像机传输图像
这两个巨型望远镜，每一个都有37英尺长，11英尺高。望远镜的两端都装备了高清的摄像机，借助于英国伦敦塔桥旁的望远镜，人们可以观看到通过位于美国纽约布鲁克林桥旁另一个同样的望远镜进行观看的人。这个望远镜是保罗-圣-乔治的最新发明。这位现年53岁的伦敦艺术家运用宽带因特网电缆，实现了这两个望远镜之间的高速视频图像传输，从而将两个城市拉得如此亲近，以至人们会感觉伦敦和纽约是通过大西洋下的望远镜连接的。
花费1英磅看一次大洋彼岸
人们通过巨型望远镜从伦敦向纽约观看一次只需要花费1英磅，他们可以对着深入地中的大型观测镜头挥挥手，同时就能够看到纽约的游客们也在挥手向他们致敬。这是人们首次能够越过大西洋进行全时、实物大小的适时观看。
望远镜生产公司Artichoke的董事尼克-韦伯说：“你不会花4小时对着这个望远镜看，不过你完全可能通过它来约会纽约的朋友，甚至用它来求婚 ；南渥克和纽约的学校将可以结对使用这两个望远镜。这绝对将是一个巨大的奇迹。”(刘妍)
位于伦敦的巨型望远镜
游客们站在巨型照相机前
纽约人镜里望伦敦人
伦敦
纽约
超大相机连接纽约伦敦 民众相看两不厌/图
星岛环球网 [url]www.stnn.cc
【星岛网讯】英国艺术家保罗·圣乔治，把曾祖父一百多年前的奇幻构想变成现实，建立了巨型望远镜，让伦敦人可以看见大西洋彼岸的纽约人，实时与身在远方的途人互相问好，把两国民众连在一起。
香港《星岛日报》报道，这座名为电传照相机（Telectroscope）的大型光学器材，是一百多年前维多利亚时代工程师阿历山大·圣乔治的突发奇想，构思开掘一条大西洋海底隧道，让纽约和伦敦人透过巨型的影像放大器彼此连系起来。
阿历山大的梦想终由曾孙保罗变成真实，看来只会在法国科幻大师凡尔纳小说出现的电传照相机，最近分别装设于伦敦塔桥和纽约布鲁克林桥附近。大西洋两岸的游客只需花一镑，便可透过电传照相机挥手示好和利用留言板传递讯息，但未能传递说话，除非使用唇语。
电传照相机由保罗设计及由创作公司Artichoke协助制造，以黄铜和木材打造，长三十七英尺、高十一英尺，而高解像度镜头的直径为六呎，透过安装在贯穿大西洋海底管道的宽带网络系统，以高速将实物原大的影像实时传送到两地。Artichoke负责人韦布表示，希望带给使用者一种刻骨铭心的梦幻感觉，他们甚至可以透过器材结识身在大西洋对岸的途人，向远方的爱侣求婚。
伦敦和纽约的人们都认为电传照相机带给他们很多乐趣。一群加州儿童不断向伦敦的途人挥手打招呼，向伦敦传递讯息，当一名儿童看到有伦敦塔桥的途人作出回应，就兴奋地大叫：“这实在酷，他们能看到我们！”他们说，自己身在这边，却能像可以与他们交谈一样，实在乐趣无穷。而伦敦那边厢，也有人举起字板，叫纽约彼岸对电传照相机好奇的po.lice单脚站立，但偶然地也会被拒绝。
将构想变成现实的艺术家保罗说，他自幼已充满奇想，希望开掘一个能通往地球另一边的洞穴。他在五年前从曾祖父遗下的笔记和日记，发现了这个奇幻构想的草图，加上本身对维多利亚时代的活动底片连续摄影机有专门知识，决定将它变成真实。www.stnn.cc
作者：刘妍
2008-05-23 15:03:58
关键词： 望远镜 巨型视频望远镜
巨型望远镜的发明者保罗-圣-乔治
纽约游客向伦敦问好
据英国《每日电讯报》报道，英国的一家公司最近在伦敦和美国的纽约同时建造了两台巨型望远镜，人们可以通过这两台望远镜穿过大西洋互相看见对方，并彼此问候，这使得两座遥远的城市被拉得如此接近。
望远镜借高清摄像机传输图像
这两个巨型望远镜，每一个都有37英尺长，11英尺高。望远镜的两端都装备了高清的摄像机，借助于英国伦敦塔桥旁的望远镜，人们可以观看到通过位于美国纽约布鲁克林桥旁另一个同样的望远镜进行观看的人。这个望远镜是保罗-圣-乔治的最新发明。这位现年53岁的伦敦艺术家运用宽带因特网电缆，实现了这两个望远镜之间的高速视频图像传输，从而将两个城市拉得如此亲近，以至人们会感觉伦敦和纽约是通过大西洋下的望远镜连接的。
花费1英磅看一次大洋彼岸
人们通过巨型望远镜从伦敦向纽约观看一次只需要花费1英磅，他们可以对着深入地中的大型观测镜头挥挥手，同时就能够看到纽约的游客们也在挥手向他们致敬。这是人们首次能够越过大西洋进行全时、实物大小的适时观看。
望远镜生产公司Artichoke的董事尼克-韦伯说：“你不会花4小时对着这个望远镜看，不过你完全可能通过它来约会纽约的朋友，甚至用它来求婚 ；南渥克和纽约的学校将可以结对使用这两个望远镜。这绝对将是一个巨大的奇迹。”(刘妍)
位于伦敦的巨型望远镜
游客们站在巨型照相机前
纽约人镜里望伦敦人
伦敦
纽约
超大相机连接纽约伦敦 民众相看两不厌/图
星岛环球网 [url]www.stnn.cc
【星岛网讯】英国艺术家保罗·圣乔治，把曾祖父一百多年前的奇幻构想变成现实，建立了巨型望远镜，让伦敦人可以看见大西洋彼岸的纽约人，实时与身在远方的途人互相问好，把两国民众连在一起。
香港《星岛日报》报道，这座名为电传照相机（Telectroscope）的大型光学器材，是一百多年前维多利亚时代工程师阿历山大·圣乔治的突发奇想，构思开掘一条大西洋海底隧道，让纽约和伦敦人透过巨型的影像放大器彼此连系起来。
阿历山大的梦想终由曾孙保罗变成真实，看来只会在法国科幻大师凡尔纳小说出现的电传照相机，最近分别装设于伦敦塔桥和纽约布鲁克林桥附近。大西洋两岸的游客只需花一镑，便可透过电传照相机挥手示好和利用留言板传递讯息，但未能传递说话，除非使用唇语。
电传照相机由保罗设计及由创作公司Artichoke协助制造，以黄铜和木材打造，长三十七英尺、高十一英尺，而高解像度镜头的直径为六呎，透过安装在贯穿大西洋海底管道的宽带网络系统，以高速将实物原大的影像实时传送到两地。Artichoke负责人韦布表示，希望带给使用者一种刻骨铭心的梦幻感觉，他们甚至可以透过器材结识身在大西洋对岸的途人，向远方的爱侣求婚。
伦敦和纽约的人们都认为电传照相机带给他们很多乐趣。一群加州儿童不断向伦敦的途人挥手打招呼，向伦敦传递讯息，当一名儿童看到有伦敦塔桥的途人作出回应，就兴奋地大叫：“这实在酷，他们能看到我们！”他们说，自己身在这边，却能像可以与他们交谈一样，实在乐趣无穷。而伦敦那边厢，也有人举起字板，叫纽约彼岸对电传照相机好奇的po.lice单脚站立，但偶然地也会被拒绝。
将构想变成现实的艺术家保罗说，他自幼已充满奇想，希望开掘一个能通往地球另一边的洞穴。他在五年前从曾祖父遗下的笔记和日记，发现了这个奇幻构想的草图，加上本身对维多利亚时代的活动底片连续摄影机有专门知识，决定将它变成真实。www.stnn.cc
Giant 'telescope' links London, New York
Story Highlights
Telectroscope allows Londoners, New Yorkers to see each other in real time
Giant scope was Victorian age idea, came about when reporter made typo
Artist St. George inspired by childhood notion of digging to other side of Earth
Next Article in World »
By Lara FarrarSpecial to CNN
LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George had finally been realized.
The Telectroscope lets Londoners and New Yorkers see each other in real time.
1 of 3
In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th-century Webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)
And all the credit goes to British artist Paul St. George. If he had not been rummaging through great-grandpa Alexander's personal effects a few years ago, the Telectroscope might still exist only on paper, hidden away deep inside some old box.
But fortunately, St. George could not bear that thought and thus decided he should be the one to finish what his great-grandfather had started. It was quite simply the right thing to do. Plus, it would make a pretty cool public art exhibit. Send us your videos, images or stories
During the twilight hours Tuesday, massive dirt-covered metal drill bits miraculously emerged -- one by the Thames near the Tower Bridge and the other on Fulton Ferry Landing by the Brooklyn Bridge in New York -- completing the final sections of great-grandfather Alexander's transatlantic tunnel.
The drills were removed Wednesday night and replaced with identical Telectroscopes at both ends, allowing Londoners and New Yorkers to wake up Thursday, look over to the far and distant shore and stare at each other for a while (the telescope-like contraption permits visual but not vocal communication).
Of course, only part of this story is true.
St. George is an artist in Britain who does have a grandfather -- minus the great prefix -- named Alexander.
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Web site: The Telectroscope
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And the trans-Atlantic tunnel is really a trans-Atlantic broadband network rounded off on each end with HD cameras, according to Tiscali, an Italian Internet provider handling the technical side of the project.
As for the Telectroscope, well, it was a fanciful idea that, according to St. George, came about from a typo made by a 19th-century reporter who misspelled Electroscope, a device used to measure electrostatic charges - as Telectroscope.
"The journalist also misunderstood what it was about and wrote in the article that it was a device for the suppression of absence," St. George said. "The accidental hope captured their imagination, and lots of people at the end of the 19th century thought it was a great idea."
The Telectroscope captured St. George's imagination five years ago, when he began pondering how to do a project on the childhood fantasy of digging a hole to the opposite side of the Earth. And because the artist also happens to have an expertise in Victorian chronophotography -- a precursor to cinematography -- he had a slight idea of where to look for the proper equipment.
"We all have that idea in our head if we could make a tunnel to the other side of the Earth," St. George said."But we are not all crazy enough to actually try and do it."
St. George was crazy enough to actually try and do it, but he realized he could not do the digging alone. So about two years ago, he pitched the idea to Artichoke, the British arts group responsible for taking the Sultan's Elephant -- a 42-ton mechanical creature -- for a stroll through central London in 2006. The company was immediately taken by St. George's idea.
"The whole thing is about seeing what is real and what isn't real and how the world is," said Nicki Webb, a co-founder of Artichoke. "Is it nighttime when we are in daytime, and does it look familiar to us or not?"
When the sun illuminated the lens of the Telectroscope next to the Thames, it was, of course, still nighttime in New York. So the screen inside the scope broadcast back only an empty sidewalk silently framed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.
But then something miraculous occurred.
A police officer and a street cleaner walked into the frame. Stopped. And waved.
The Telectroscope will be on display and open to the public 24 hours a day in London and New York until June 15. Artichoke is arranging requests to synchronize special reunions between friends and family or, the company hopes, maybe even a marriage proposal
Story Highlights
Telectroscope allows Londoners, New Yorkers to see each other in real time
Giant scope was Victorian age idea, came about when reporter made typo
Artist St. George inspired by childhood notion of digging to other side of Earth
Next Article in World »
By Lara FarrarSpecial to CNN
LONDON, England (CNN) -- As the first splinters of sunlight spread their warmth on the south bank of the River Thames on Thursday, it became clear that after more than a century, the vision of Victorian engineer Alexander Stanhope St. George had finally been realized.
The Telectroscope lets Londoners and New Yorkers see each other in real time.
1 of 3
In all its optical brilliance and brass and wood, there stood the Telectroscope: an 11.2-meter-(37 feet) long by 3.3-meter-(11 feet) tall dream of a device allowing people on one side of the Atlantic to look into its person-size lens and, in real time, see those on the other side via a recently completed tunnel running under the ocean. (Think 19th-century Webcam. Or maybe Victorian-age video phone.)
And all the credit goes to British artist Paul St. George. If he had not been rummaging through great-grandpa Alexander's personal effects a few years ago, the Telectroscope might still exist only on paper, hidden away deep inside some old box.
But fortunately, St. George could not bear that thought and thus decided he should be the one to finish what his great-grandfather had started. It was quite simply the right thing to do. Plus, it would make a pretty cool public art exhibit. Send us your videos, images or stories
During the twilight hours Tuesday, massive dirt-covered metal drill bits miraculously emerged -- one by the Thames near the Tower Bridge and the other on Fulton Ferry Landing by the Brooklyn Bridge in New York -- completing the final sections of great-grandfather Alexander's transatlantic tunnel.
The drills were removed Wednesday night and replaced with identical Telectroscopes at both ends, allowing Londoners and New Yorkers to wake up Thursday, look over to the far and distant shore and stare at each other for a while (the telescope-like contraption permits visual but not vocal communication).
Of course, only part of this story is true.
St. George is an artist in Britain who does have a grandfather -- minus the great prefix -- named Alexander.
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Web site: The Telectroscope
iReport.com: Send us your videos, photos or stories
And the trans-Atlantic tunnel is really a trans-Atlantic broadband network rounded off on each end with HD cameras, according to Tiscali, an Italian Internet provider handling the technical side of the project.
As for the Telectroscope, well, it was a fanciful idea that, according to St. George, came about from a typo made by a 19th-century reporter who misspelled Electroscope, a device used to measure electrostatic charges - as Telectroscope.
"The journalist also misunderstood what it was about and wrote in the article that it was a device for the suppression of absence," St. George said. "The accidental hope captured their imagination, and lots of people at the end of the 19th century thought it was a great idea."
The Telectroscope captured St. George's imagination five years ago, when he began pondering how to do a project on the childhood fantasy of digging a hole to the opposite side of the Earth. And because the artist also happens to have an expertise in Victorian chronophotography -- a precursor to cinematography -- he had a slight idea of where to look for the proper equipment.
"We all have that idea in our head if we could make a tunnel to the other side of the Earth," St. George said."But we are not all crazy enough to actually try and do it."
St. George was crazy enough to actually try and do it, but he realized he could not do the digging alone. So about two years ago, he pitched the idea to Artichoke, the British arts group responsible for taking the Sultan's Elephant -- a 42-ton mechanical creature -- for a stroll through central London in 2006. The company was immediately taken by St. George's idea.
"The whole thing is about seeing what is real and what isn't real and how the world is," said Nicki Webb, a co-founder of Artichoke. "Is it nighttime when we are in daytime, and does it look familiar to us or not?"
When the sun illuminated the lens of the Telectroscope next to the Thames, it was, of course, still nighttime in New York. So the screen inside the scope broadcast back only an empty sidewalk silently framed by the Brooklyn Bridge and the Manhattan skyline.
But then something miraculous occurred.
A police officer and a street cleaner walked into the frame. Stopped. And waved.
The Telectroscope will be on display and open to the public 24 hours a day in London and New York until June 15. Artichoke is arranging requests to synchronize special reunions between friends and family or, the company hopes, maybe even a marriage proposal
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