Full record for viewphone n.

Definition	a telephone that allows caller and receiver to see one another = videophone
OED requirements	antedating 1932
Earliest cite	Raymond Z. Gallun, Revolt of the Star Men
Comment	In the OED, with earliest cite of 1964: this cite was actually to a reprint in a 1966 Frederik Pohl collection, "Alternating Currents". Fred Galvin verified the cite in the original story, "The Children of Night", from Galaxy, October 1964. Fred Galvin submitted a cite from a 1959 reprint of Robert A. Heinlein's "Waldo" and Mike Christie verified it in its 1942 first publication. Fred Galvin submitted a 1932 cite from Raymond Z. Gallun's "The Revolt of the Star Men"
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Citations for viewphone n.

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1932 R.Z. Gallun Revolt of Star Men in Wonder Stories Quarterly Winter 228/1

When Shelby reached his apartment, he immediately donned his laboratory smock and set to work. But he had scarcely finished mounting a tiny coil of wire within the hand-grip of his weapon, when the view-phone bell rang insistently. The inventor pulled off his smock and threw it over the materials on his work bench, so that the person at the other end of the view-phone connection, whoever it was, would not be able to see them. Then he snapped the television and audio switches. The mists in the view-plate cleared, and there before him, as real as though he were actually in the room, sat Hekalu Selba. The Martian's eyes gleamed with suppressed excitement.

1942 Astounding Sci. Fiction Aug. 32/2,

I mean that he will not talk over the viewphone under any circumstances whatsoever, to you or to anyone. He says that he is sorry not to accommodate you, but that he is opposed to everything of that nature—cameras, cinécams, television, and so forth.