Alexander Stanhope St. George

Alexander Stanhope St George (8 July 1848 - 12 October 1917) was a British inventor and researcher.

Employed by Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope (inventor of the Stanhope lens) , Alexander Stanhope St George is most famous for creating the Telectroscope.

Unlike many other scientists who have claimed to have invented a Telectroscope, without any real evidence to verify their claims, Alexander Stanhope St George is widely recognized in many parts of the world as the inventor of the only Telectroscope that would have worked .

Alexander Stanhope St George’s most ambitious claim is that one day there would be a series of tunnels, which would allow visual communication between people in one country with those in another, using his invention.

This was of course a bold claim made in a time long before television or the internet. However, if recent claims by Alexander Stanhope St George’s great-grandson, artist Paul St George , are to be believed then this may have been much more than an ambitious prediction. It is claimed by Paul St George, that his great grandfather had in fact begun to have a tunnel dug under the Atlantic in the hope of creating the largest ever Telectroscope, which would allow visual communication between England and America.

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