On Friday, May 23, 53-year-old artist and inventor Paul St George unveiled his "Telectroscope," a telescope-like apparatus, which is said to connect New York and London through a 3,471 mile-long tunnel. What it does is it uses a complicatedly arranged series of mirrors in order to transmit images from one side to another.

As found on the official website of the project, everything began when the artist found a set of papers consisting of a plan that was put together by his great-grandfather, engineer Alexander Stanhope St George.

The two terminals of the Telectroscope are located next to the Brooklyn Bridge in New York and right next to the Tower Bridge in London. No sound can be transmitted through the tunnel, therefore people use boards to ask each other funny questions or to send very important messages such as "SAY HI TO THE QUEEN."

There is however another theory on how the device works, which involves the use of optical fibres; the official version is the aforementioned one.

Peter Coleman, the producer of the project in New York, sees the device as both a piece of art and a curiosity in a public space. The unusual transoceanic connection will be kept open until June 15 and a very large number of visitors is expected to show up and take a look.