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The history of transmission media, and more particularly radiotelegraphy, has overlooked the role of Slow-scan Television SSTV). The format offered an alternative screen-based means of telecommunication which put sound at the heart of the transmission method. It spurred the dream of wireless, global communication in a fashion predating digital communication networks. Zakayo Kjellström and Johan Malmstedt presents excerpts from their research which maps the long and winding history of the format. From the inception within the American amateur radio clubs, through its golden age of scientific implementation and towards the gradual decline to fringe technology, the story provides a new puzzle piece in the history of 20th century telecommunications.