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New York, Dec. 30. Within 24 hours aftor the first successful wireless transmission of pictures ACTORS the Atlantic, a Fifth avenue costumor Was Booking exclusivo rights to transmit photographs of the latest Parisian modos.

And there's no doubt or joke about the possibilition of the now "photo-radiogram" for Ronding important documents across wide "pacoa and obtaining important signatures quickly. It can bo done with absolute accuracy and Hafoty. Nows pictures can bo flashed around the world in time: for first editions.

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In fact, it is possibility to build a radio tele- phone which permits the parties to 800 one another.

"Possibility" is the big word in this latter idyllic picture, om- phasizes Maj. Can. J. G. Harbord, president of the Radio Corpora- tion of America, in whose labora- tories the "photora d'ogram" was developed. The reoing tole phono hasn't boen built yet, and it may become commercially

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, 23rd. JANUARY, 1925.

PHOTO-RADIOGRAM.

Facts About A Remarkable Invention.

HOME LOVERS

Getting pictures out of the air! Above, Captain R. H.

and Ranger, inventor.

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Harbord, Gen. James G. president of the Radio Corporation, in New York watching the Bolov, radio picture mâchins receive a photograph from London.

the motor which turns the receiving cylinder and other parts of the instrument. Loft the Prince of Wales, right. Stanley Baldwin,

as transmitted. Each picture requires 15 or 20 minules

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Nourly two years, ago they started, just after Owon D Young, chairman of the board of the General Electric Company, had said lightly at a banquot that he wished to see an operator just prosa a button, "and, zip1 the first page of the London Times will ba reproduced in New York."-

By July, 1923, the engineers had succeeded in sending a pic- turo of Gonoral Harbord by wire- less. That picture is a transuro of the laboratory, a tangle of bluish lines, dim but rocognizable, printed through the air slowly and painfully. Lator tboy discarded the system of that trans- mission and dovoloped another.

"It is an old quost, this elos- trical transmission of pictures," ways Osptain Ranger, rod-hoadod young engineer who camo up through the Massachusetts Toch and the army signal corps.

"An Englishman by the name practical. But principles now of Bain worked on it about 1842, known make it possiblo.

and his principle was absolutely correct. But bo wae handicapp- We started from the ground up. od by the lack of instruments with only the general basis of radio sound transmission.

"The radio transmission of pic. tures probably is the greatest development of wireless in many yoara," Goneral Harhord says.

"The transmission of pictures from Europe by wireless is at achievement which speaks for itself. But considor some of the refinements of the device.

"It is absolutely accrot, Out sidors cannot tune in. The rate of sending can be regulated to an accuracy of one point in a hun-

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"Tho picturo is sont from a revolving cylinder and printed on anothor which ToVolvos exactly the same spood. To synchronize the sonding and receiving cylinders was as hard a problem as any in the entire in-

vention.

ANCIENT

BASEBALL.

Some Interesting Facts.

Above you are the ruins of the court where an early form of baseball was played in Chicher-ltza. Bólow a huga columna of the stadium an- the stone ring through which the ball had to pass before a game was won

Chichon-Itza, Yucatan, Doo, ond, stands the ruins of a small

"Io sonding. light shinop dred thousand. Unless the exact through the picturs, ono tiny 30.Baseball has an archeole- temple, where the players offorod rate is known, anyone receiving point at a time. Its intensity is gical shrine in the ruined city of religious sacrifice to the idol of the impulses will get only a blur, regulated by the lights and darks Chichen-Itza. Furthermore it is possible to code of the picture. This light strikes With the restoration of the According to a quaint descrip-

it, so that translation is necessary a tubo much resembling to got a picture.

"It is subject to far loss intor. ference from static than sound transmission. It is comparative iy cheap. And it still is in the infancy of its development."

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sport.

oldent ballcourt on the American tion, tho game Wha called ordinary radio tube, lined with continent, the national sport may "Tlachtle," resembled tennis, and It is known that now trace its lineago back to the was played with balls made of potassium.

the gum of a troo that grows in a tubo is lighted, anelont Maya civilization. when such

The symnasium, known as the hot countries. The playors struck current passes through it more easily than when it is in dark-Pelota Gamo," is rogarded as at the ball with any part of the the most impressive structure in body, but the most dexterous Therefore, the varying degroes of light shining through Chichen Itza's famous group of touched it only with the hip.

By ancient custom and the law The invention is the work of the picture onto the tubo regulate ruins. Its court, nearly 500 fest Captain R. H. Ranger, engineer the strength of electric impulsos long and 120 feet wido, is flanked among gamesters, the player for the Radio Corporation, assist flowing through the tube

by two immonsa limestone walls winning the game had a right to On an elevation at the northorn all the oloake of the on-lockers.

SPORTS PARS.

Interesting World Items.

Bobby Cruickshanks, the golfor, is going bome from Americs to take part in the Opan Championship at Prestwick.

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Major Carlyle, who is reported killed in the mu iny at Khartum, was A native of Langholm, and played Rugby for that club, for Edinburgh University, Edin- burgh Wanderers, and the South of Scotland. He was a fino typo of forward, and a finished player

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R. L. Raymond, the Oxford University full back, who comes. from Australis, was a brilliant succoss in the inter-University. gamo, Ho outshone P. S. Douty though the latter played quite a good game and did a lot of fear- less saving.

The South African "Soceor" toam played in all 22 matches during their tour in Britain and of these they won 13 and lost 9. They scored 73 goals and 44 were rocorded against thom.

James Paddon is relinquishing the world's sculling champion-} ship to W. M'Devitt, on the con- dition that the latter and Major Goodsell bave the first race for the title.

Mr. L. H. Crabb, of the Argyle Club, is particularly proud of their now left wingor, 8. Black, Jcaptured from Kirkintilloch Rob Roy. Last year he was playing In the Glagow Junior League. He has shown exceptional pro- miso for a youth of 18 and forms an excellent partner to the hard- working Leslio-the.coloured ex- Barking player, This left wing has much to do with keeping Elymouth sound. Already. Leslie --- bas scored five goala and Black

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