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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MAY 25th, 1929.
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Mr. William M. Cummings of Chicago is shown in the Asement of his home installing his television tube into
the revolving apparatus
With hand-made apparatus and and white image on a ground. in the laboratory he has assemb-glass and to do away with the led in the basement of his home, oscilligraph used in the film re- Wares for in Berwyn, Illinois, Mr. William gistering of sound
E, Cummings has constructed a phonograph records and talkie- new kind of television reprodue-movies. He succeeded in both.
The new lube looks like a reg ing tube which may leave a de "eided impression 01 perfected ular radio tube, but instead of a television apparatus of the future. nt surface of light as in the neon, For 20 years he has studied audit has a point souren of light sua- The dong research work with special pended like a ball of fire. interest in photo-electric pheas in the neon, due to cohesion nomena. At one time, la 101% to the plates, Mr. Cummings says, Mr. Cummings says he received slows it up while the point source an invitation from Lord. North-jof light in his tube hus, na nie- cliffe to return to Bagland andchanical or physical losses. Mr. continue his experiments.
Cummings figures his new tube
The reproducer now in use is responds in one twenty-four mil- the mon type, the result of the lionth of a second! labours of Dr. Macfarland Moore. Mr. Cummings finds that with a his tube The shortcomings of this tobe three-stage, amplifier
to sellgives superior service to the neon prompted Mr. Curamings about his experiments.
with an eight-stage amplifier and Neon, which gives off, an orange at a much lower cost. light, has not the power to east an This nege tube, Mr. Cummings image successfully upon a screen says, is more of an approach to
The Enst Const Express photographed between Essendine and Corby by a staff photographer of The Times, when travelling at full speed on the non-stop run from Grantham to King's Cross. The booked time for this ran is 111 minutes for 105 miles, and during a recent trip the train achieved an average speed of 81 miles an hour for the 171⁄2 miles from Corby to Werrington, with a maximum of 89 miles an hour. The locomotive shown in our photograph is the "Solario," one of the latest type three-cylinder Pacific express passenger locomotives designed by M. H. N. Greasley, of the London and North Eastern Railway. (Times copyright).
alze. With the present tube a which will do away with the cum-A MAN-HATER'S 100TH of a modern girl, but the serious me this when I went to see her BIRTHDAY. four by five-inch image is possible, hersome oscillograph now neces- Mr. Cummings plans to make a aary in the making of talkies. larger tube capable of an Image Not only that, but it will register eight by 10 jches in dimensions, any sound that is capable of be "AND THAT IS WHY I LIVED brated her 100th birthday (anys a ed en tied under her chin in a
Mr. Cummings Rays his tube!
ing made and without undertones or overtones.
When done the result is like the cathode tube in the matter of shadows rather than a clear cufspoel than anything he knows of, will be of service in the making! of film records for modern phono- and positive image. What was Another advantage over, the neon needed, others as well as MeLabe is in the matter of entarge-genphs and the production of Cummings believed, was a while ment of the image. In the neon takle movies. The rays that are the impression that I myself amman's troubles! Man Who breaks
light tub,
the image is in the tube Itself. Improves Talkies, Too.
Has Large Range in Size. Mr.. Cummings started work To the Cummings tube the with two idena in mind: to make light is projected upon a ground 'tube that would give a black glass giving it a larger range of
OFFICERS, WARRANT
Officers of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps gathered on the lawn of the British Consulate recently, following the amual church parade for the customary photograph. On the previous day the biggest parade and Inspection in the his-
and considered opinion of Miss to congratulate her on pussing her Wilhelmina Robinson, of Sibsey, hundredth birthday. She ant up Boston, Lines, who has just cele- in her cosy room, wearing a frill- special correspondent of the Sun- neat bow. SO LONG."
day Expr 288.)
Hospital Cases, I had not been in her presence Her small face, framed in frills, "Who is the cause of all we more than sixty seconds before was sharp and painted, ivory pale "I do not want to give anyone!
a girl's heart ar turns her into a phatic verdict:- perfect
Miss Robinson delivered her em- against the blue washed wall be- television.drudge? Man Who pesters a
"I detest men, and I put down hind her. By her side on necessary for the recording of trying to
my long and happy life to the scarlet counterpane ant two large. sound waves on film are emitte! What I do is in the hope that woman's life out to marry him,
fact that I was never foolish eats, white as milk, with great aquamarine eyes that gleamed in can supply those who sock that and then forgets all about her? by this tube.
enough to marry one!" With this tube, he claims, alperfection with apparatus that Maal
Miss Wilhelmina Robinson told the firelight. They are her in- separable companions and abure the common name of Tibby. Both portable outfit can be assembled will function better," he says.
are Indien.
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OFFICERS AND N.C.O.'S OF SHANGHAI VOLUNTEERS.
tory of the Corps took place at the Race Course, despite the threatening, weather, More than 1,200 strong, under the command of 64 offeers, the Volunteers marched past the official reviewing stand. The salute was taken by Brigadier O, C. Borrett, C.B., 11.5.0., A.D.C, who is in command of the
British forces in Shanghai. With music provided by the Norfolks Regimental Band, the Shanghai Volunteer Corps paraded under the command of Col. II. B. II. Orpen-Palmer, C.M.G., D.S.O., Commandant.
the
"Why, went in Miss Robinson, "single women have far better life than any wife. Married wo- men are always ailing with some- thing or other. The hospitals are full of married women.
"It is all the fault of some man. But there you are; some women never know when they are well or. They are not ebntent till they have some fool dangling after them, to be a worry to them. The zirls of to-day are a scandal. It ls men, men, men, all the time
and then they are not satisfied.
"No, I never asked any man to marry me, and no one ever asked me to marry them. They never had a chance. I always hailed men, and never gave them any opportunity for familiarities like that."
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Warrant and non-commissioned officers who took part in the Church Parade of the Shanghai Volunteer Corpa. After the parade, following the accepted procedure, they marched to the grounds of the British Consulate for a photograph.
The annual inspection of the S.C.C. was held the day before at the Race Course and proved the greatest in the history of the Corps. In addition to Brigadier O. C. Borrett, command- ing the British forces in Shanghai, who took the salute, those In the official reviewing stand Included the Chairman of
the Shanghal Municipal Council, Mr. H. E. Arnhold, Mr. Stirling Fesssenden, Director-General; Col. C. IL. Lyman of the United States Marine Corps, Colonel Mallet, Commahit- ing Officer of the French Defence Forces.
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