The Telephonoscope: Home Entertainment in the Year 2889

An illustration from 'La Journée d'un journaliste américain en 2889,' a story credited to Jules Verne (drafted by his son Michel Verne). A man sits at a control console featuring a large gramophone-like horn, watching a live performer projected onto a circular telephonoscope screen. This device imagines televised, on-demand entertainment and communication broadcast into the home, illustrating the story's futuristic vision of media technology a century ahead of its 1889 publication.