do you believe in the telectroscope?

An article in 'The Times'

I suppose one should not always believe what one reads in the papers, but I was excited to see an article - with accompanying photograph - about Paul and his Telectroscope in the Times newspaper today:

"His 21st-century Telectroscope will allow people at one end in London to see those at the other, in New York. It opens later this month, just by Tower Bridge.

Jutting into the ground will be a 40ft-long (12m) Victorian-styled tubular optical instrument, 6ft in diameter. It will look something like a giant’s telescope. The device is so large that its maker had to take the other end to New York by ship. The twin machine will be sited near the Brooklyn Bridge.

For £1 a go, people will be able to wave down a massive viewing pipe into the earth and see others in New York waving back. Its aperture is so wide that two or three families can look down it at the same time."

There's some comfort here in the fact that this was not the April 1st edition... and as usual, Paul is very compelling when he describes the history behind his project. But I'm really no nearer understanding whether he has managed to dig a tunnel and build his devices or not.

The route of the tunnel, the siting of the Telectroscopes

I'm heartened to see that an arts organisation called Artichoke has announced a bit more detail about the Telectroscope and mentions specific sites in New York and London.

Inspired by the drawing that Paul posted of his ancestor's Eureka moment, I have charted the two locations mentioned on a Google map, which then gives us a straight line that *may* be the route of the tunnel (if indeed it is straight). Perhaps you live somewhere along the line? If so, have you heard rumbles or felt vibrations?

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I’m planning to go out and about soon to take some soundings.

More importantly, I have accepted Paul's invitation to visit his workshop!