THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Special Announcement
WE have been appointed SOLE AGENTS for
the famous English-
GARNER
PASSENGER BUSES
AND TRUCK CHASSIS
Manufactured in Birmingham, England.
In June next we shall receive →
One 24---Passenger Bus, Complete
a n'd
Two 2-Ton Truck Chassis
all of which are equipped with pneumatic tyres.. ASK US ABOUT THE GARNER ! THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1924.
RADIO NOTES AND NEWS.
Wireless Transmission of Pictures.
1
Wave
The wireless transmission of a The method by which the wire. cinomatograph programmo from loss car will work is,as follows. Paris has been actually tested in At the headquarters is a 732-] an English south coast town niotro wave longth transmitter, a whore amateurs, provided with special solectiva receiver for 285. valve sols, heard a curious metro wave length, a valve bighitched whistlo totally dif- amplifier for the 80010 ferent from the ordinary "howl-length, a moler generator, bat- fing." The inventor, a young torios, and the necessary change-
Englishman. contends that if the over switchgear. Headquartors; listoners had had the necessary will therefore sond out on a 792- apparatus, the signals could have notor wave length and receive been converted into picturos. on a 265-metor wave length. In Tho transmission apparatus is the car there is a transmittar for of the simplest. The picture is the 265-metor wave longth and a placed in a beat, of light before tuner and amplifier for tho 732- a rotating disc pierced with holes, meter wave length reception sot, The rays pass a second rotating with the requisite batterios and dise and being received in a valvos. The microphone IN aelonium cell. -produco an portable so that it can be used in olectrical circuit equivalent to any position.
a musical noto,
At the re-
ooiving stations is a rotating Tho aerial used on the car dise fitted with a circle of consists of five parallel wires electric lamps arranged similarly mounted upon adjustablo arms with holos in a transmitting disc. attached to the roof of the van. Thoso aro, lighted by the signals These arms can bo raised or received, and the picture producod loworod from the inside of the is similar to a monochrome brush van as occasion requiros, drawing.
An observation window has
The transmitting motor sonds
out a wireless wave which auto-been fitted to the van for the matically regulates the spood of purpose of vlowing any overhead Jobstruction on the road, so that the reception motor,
tha nurial can be lowered in time to clear it. An arrangement of fonsex fittod to the observation window in the roof enables the observer to view the height of
RADIO ROAD SCOUT.
TAXICAB CO., LTD. SCOTLAND YARD'S WONDERFUL apporaching obstructions and to
Telephone No. 1036
CARL,
Scotland Yard, has designed und built a special car from which
adjust the aortal. Tolographic keys have also been fitted at both the head office and on the van so' that telegraphy can be used.
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Blindness has not prevented Joseph Alonzó of Naw York from enjoying radio. as well as any "fan" in the country, oven to the point of building his own sut. Ho built the one he shows hore, and is bullding more for other people.
communication can be establish- | HIGH-SPEED CAMERA. ed with headquartors when it is. travelling at a spoed up to 401 miles per hour. The primary object is to establish a means of movable communication for the control of traffic.
Thousand Photographs a
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A china plate dropped on edge
The camera, which is the in- vention of Mr. E. B. Wodmora, director of the British Electrical and Allied Industries. Research Association, can take fifty photo-
It will bo remembered that from a height of several foot on | efforts have been made to control to a steel black does not tako the Derby Day traffic with only long to break, but the new maagro resulta, Aeroplanes, it Wedmoro high speed camora is was found, were able to report able to securo a series of forty or congestione in traffic, at various more pictures of the granek spots, but were unable to dis- spreading. tinguish whother they woro caused by a real block of traflic or wore merely the result of the traffic being held up by the police in the ordinary way. By meane of this now wireless vehicle, which will easily be able to get graghs in less than the time bo
tween two successive flickers of to and fro, on roads and fields, an ordinary kinematograph pro- Scotland Yard hopes to get into jactor. The camera is portable, touch with any real congestion, uses ordinary photographio film and by means of prompt comin daylight, has no ratohets or munication with headquarters oscillating parts, and is the last romedy it..
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Many difficultios have had to the only, moving part, besides a bo overcome by the electrical simple type of shutter, is a motor department of the Metropolitan carrying the firm and fifty lonsos: Pollon Force before the present A serios of photographs of a vehicle was evolved. First, thero breaking plata have boon taken was the difficulty of obtaining an by the camera at the rate of 1,000 Molont oarthron a moving por second. They reveal the vehicle; serondly, there was the interesting fact that the edge of scrooning caused by buildings, china plate is crushed on striking tolograph lines, and stool bridges the ground before the crack thirdly, there was trouble due to starts, and the plate bounces up passing motor-cars with their into the air again while the magnotos and dynamos and to crack is spreading and opening trams. Whether supplied by out. Even the 40th photograph conduitor on the overhoad shows the two portions of the system. Those have how been broken plate rising upwards close -overcome,-
together on the first bounce,
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