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In the ter part of 1907 1experimenter in the construation want to Paris to study the new of selenium calla of great science of phototelegraphy under sensitiveness and extraordinary Professor Arthur Körn, a fornier|freedom from their usual great colleague of Professor Rontgen, fault-sluggishness in sotion. X-rays face, at the university of Laboratory tests made, with Munich, writes T. Thorne Baker some of these calls show that the in Popular Wireless His gratom problent of television has been of sending a picture by wire was brought measurably nearer. The the first to be triad on a commoment the illumination falling| mercial scale, and quite a number upon these cells ceases-or of photographs were sent from changes in strength, an instant Paris and Manchester to London response is seen in the call, which by his selenium system. Wireless means that if the image of a was then in a somewhat early person were being transmitted. stage, but the possibilities of!

any movement on the part of that) transmitting pictures by wireless person would be seen at the were already fully realised.

other end." More than this, the ides of transmitting a picture instantane

ualy had already been. con-

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ceived, which is merelr another Eaters now the" radio widow." Way of describing television. And hers, indeed is a sad plight-- Belin in Paris, Ruhmer in Berlin beside which static, short circuits and Bosing in Petrograd were at land cat bowls "soer real ples- work on the idea. Numerous ex-sures. That is if the allegations perimenters are occupied with she sets forth in her divorce peti-| the problem to-day. Will teletion are true. vision ever be accomplished? It The first plantiff in such a suit, is a interesting question because in so far as the record, reveal, is upon its answer depends the pos-

a pretty young Minneapolis sibility of accomplising the much woman, Mrs Cora May White. advertised fast of transmitting

Everything was well in the cinematograph pictures by radio.

White household until hubby A little thought will show us that the transmission of a picture bought his radio. But after that Gerald White paid far more atten- by wire or wireless depends on breaking the picture up into tion to his receiving set than he thousands tiny fragments did to her, his spouse charges.

Here are just a few of the things of various densities, and sending. electrical impulses of correspond her petition says about hind: ing intensity or duration which "He swore violently when local are their equivalent which must be stations interfered with his tuning built up into a fresh picture by in on distant stations.

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"Stayed up late with the loud writer's telectrograph--which some years ago telegraphed some speaker connected, so that she hundreds of photographs from and her daughter were kept awake night after night and Manchester and Paris to London, j two hundred separate impulses plunged to a nervous, irritated per second were sent through the state seriously affecting her

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"Insisted she listen while his The time of transmission was about fifteen minutes, so that friends in other cities sang jazz) some 180,000 distinct impulses songs."

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were required to form a photo- And this "interference caused graph. Now in order to see the good ship Happy-Matrimony!

wire, or by wireless. it will be to fade out."

Looks bad for poor hubby, necessary to transmit something Presiding at a meeting in Lon-like 200.000 impulses in less than unless the judge happens to be a don of the India Society, on the 115 of a second; it need not be radio fan himself. Then it ought occasion of a lecture by Sir done instantaneously, because the to be easy sailing. Thomas Arnold, Sir Charles persistence of vision will enable!

Holmes said that, speaking quite the eye to retain an image for ARMY AND NAVY AT WEMBLEY. unofficially, he was eager to see the fifteenth part of a second.

A fleet of model vessels show-

the great paintings of India, The lines on which televisioning the type of ships used in the Persia, China and Japan, represby radio will probably be first British Navy at various periods ented in our National Gallery by worked out the lines on which will be one of the most striking the side of the great paintings of the problem is indeed now being features of the Government Europe. In saying that, he must attacked-will be the use of a pavilion at the British Empire not be thought for an instant to number of selenium cells, set Exhibition at Wembley. This disparage or to be competing with closely together wo form a mosaic, model fleet, sailing in water, will what had been done for Oriental upon which the image to be represent the history of the navy art by the British Museum and transmitted will be cast by a lens. for a thousand years, and great the Victoria and Albert Museum The resistence of selenium, as pains have been taken to ensure That was beyond all praise. But is well known, varies with the that the tiny ships will be actual there was a function which those intensity of illumination thrown reproductions of the original museums could not perform. upon it, so that each cell will vessels. The Battle of Trafalgar Only by exhibiting the great vary in resistance in accordance and the defeat of the Spanish

will painters of the East in juxtaposi-with the intensity of the image Armada

be realistically tion with the great painters of at each point.

staged. The work of the Army Europe could we properly esti-

A current passed through each will be illustrated by a series of mate, proclaim and emphasise cell in rapid succession will vary large scale models representing the place of the East in in strength by an amount propor-field operations as they actually the vital artistic achievement tional to the tones in the image, occurred. Thete. will also be of the world. Our knowledge of and the whole of the variations pro- modele representing the scope of art would not be complete until duced by the effect of the whole the Air Force, and an important we could include the paintings of number of cells will be trans-section will be devoted to civil India, Persia, China and Japan mitted by wireless to the aviation. Main routes and stat- in the same comprehesive vision reconstructing instrument. Re- ions over large areas of the coun- with which we surveyed the arts markable progress has been tries traversed will be shown in of Northen and Southern Europe, made recently by an English relief. ·

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