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Giant Steampunk “Telescope” Connects London and New York May 23, 2008 at 12:31 am · Filed under Pictures, Travel & Places, Art & Craft Photo: cowfish [Flickr] - via Cowfish Blog In 1877, a French editor mistook the fake invention of "telectroscope" (an electronic telescope that projects images just like a modern TV) as real, and even attributed it to Alexander Graham Bell. The hoax perpetuated itself through the century and became a reality (in form of an art exhibit) in New York and Lon