50 Year Anniversary of First Commercial Video Call
Channel: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries
Date: 16/08/2020

To celebrate the 50-year anniversary of the first commercial video call, Carnegie Mellon University hosted an event with Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto and Alcoa Chairman Michael Morris on June 30, 2020. Their predecessors, Mayor Peter Flaherty and  Alcoa's John Harper, used AT&T’s “Picturephone” system on June 30, 1970. The Libraries have two AT&T Mod II Picturephones in Special Collections as part of its distinctive and unique holdings relating to the history of science and technology.

More: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2020/june/picturephones.html