"A STONE WALL"

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 126, 24 November 1932, Page 23

"A STONE WALL"

It begins to look as if 1932 will pass away without giving television to the home, says an American writer. The research experts who have been hibernating in their laboratories through theeconomic depression, are working behind a curtain of secrecy seldom witnessed in radio science. Even Marconi in the 'nineties worked more in the open than are the-television builders of the 'thirties.

When inquiry is made relative to the mystery of their labour- the- research engineers reply that they have learned a lesson from the evolution of broadcasting. They plan to guard every de--vice with patents and- be. absolutely sure of protection, before they hand television to the public. They hope to avert a so-called patent war and general chaos in the television industry. On the other hand, Captain Eckersle'y, former chief engineer of the-Bri-tish Broadcasting Corporation; while visiting in New York recently declared in regard to television, "They are on the wrong track in London." And Charles W. Horn, chief engineer of the National Broadcasting Company," added, "We are up against a stone wall in. television."

' Demonstrations already made of television give plenty of evidence that it is:possibleandsome day will be-practi-cal. The. problems to-day are to enlarge the pictures, clarify the images, throw more light on the-screens, simplify a, receiver-for home use-, ami invent a method of sending, the. scenes through: space on narrow channels instead of the wide roadways now required.