Filipino scientist Gregorio Y. Zara demonstrating his “telephone-television” invention in 1954. The post quickly became popular especially among Filipino Internet users, who appreciated learning that a Filipino invented a videophone as early as the 1950s. Before there was Skype and Facetime, a Filipino scientist invented a television-telephone. Aha!
almost... Dr. Georg Schubert In early 1936, the first public video telephone service, Germany's Gegensehn-Fernsprechanlagen (visual telephone system), was developed by Dr. Georg Schubert, who headed the development department at the Fernseh-AG, a technical combine for television broadcasting technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_videotelephony