SEEING BY TELEPHONE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 12

SEEING BY TELEPHONE.

1 THE NEWEST MARVEL OF SCIENCE. Simultancouslyvfith tho re6carcheaof.a Gorman professor on television,Va young' French inventor, if. Georges Eignouxi as-; sisted by the chicf. of tlio Municipal Laboratory of la Kochetle, M. Eournior, has beon making very successful studies of :tho same subject, and^has^devised^an 1 ; appa-> ratus by. means of w'hich, it is eaid, one . .'way. s«) the pemn.to whoui ono-ia. tel©-.'. •; .phoning at a distance. . ; I The mechanism consists \of.° a concave parabolic.mirror, v;hich light of 601110 30G0 candle-powcr on the : object : the miage-of which is to. bo transmitted.. 1 Tire imago..is' projected on a screen of. (sdeninnf,; composed of sixty-four sejiarat# .cells,. which; constitutes an artificial; ro- . traa.,: As tho selenium reacts under- the ■. influence of light, an electric,.current/in , each/ cell-.transmits' a-i luminous wave in proportion to tho: intensity Or . variation of tho light. . , A rotary mochanism;i has been, devised . , by the inventors, whicli, it is - ables thom to. transmit tho..impressions .of .iho sixtj>four cells over 1 a single wire . 'successfully with suffioicnt : rapidity,. to give tho illusion of instantanoousness.;,:'.

Tho inventors-.believe thatVthey, .may eventually, also succeed; in .transmitting' coloured images by a system of cells with the thrco fundamental colours,,iindi.that: .thus the teloplioto will/give, tho illusion of a living picture.. :. ••