picturephone (n.)

"video-telephone," 1964, from picture (n.) + phone (n.1).

Buck Rogers thought it up more than 25 years ago, and Bell System has been working on it here for 15 years. Now it's here.

It is called Picturephone, and it is a small television camera and receiver that allows telephone users to gaze into the features of the person they are talking to.

Whether this really is a boon to mankind remains to be seen.

["Picturephones Are On The Way," St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Aug. 28, 1970]