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TIL that the first public demonstration of a one-way videophone occurred on April 7, 1927, between Herbert Hoover (then U.S. secretary of commerce) in Washington, D.C., and officials of AT&T in New York City. This was followed by the first demonstration of a two-way videophone, on April 9, 1930.

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