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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2260, 4 August 1908, Page 2

WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY. Mr 11-ins Knudsen. _a Dane, famous in connection with his invention for making liquid air, recently gave a public demonstration of -wireless distance photography. In one room was a transmitter, with a needle point, which passed over a picture prepared on a glass plate from a 'photograph. The point of contact continually vibrated over this .plate, according to the roughness or smoothness of the surface, and a succession of electric waves caught on the wall was the result. These waves were in turn caught on a receiving plate in an adjoining room—through a wall or with the door opened—and communicated to a receiving instrument, which traced out the 'picture on a smoked glass plate. From this plate pictures were printed on sensitised paper. Among the photographs sent wore those of the King and Queen and the Kaiser. Interviewed after tho demonstration, Mr Knudsen s u’d : •‘This instrument has never been publicly demonstrated before. I can claim wherever Marconi can send messages I can send pictures. But I have another invention to which I attach oven- more importance, and I will publicly domonstmto it within a few weeks. I refer to my invention for setting tvpe bv wireless wave. By this I can. I claim, set type in Paris on an ordinary linotype machine <bv wireless wayes d.ireoted from London or anv other point.” DROPPED HIS “GUN.” Daniel Finch arrived in Melbourne on Friday from America by the steamer Stephanotis i(6ays a recent “Argus”). He immediately went up Collins street, where Constable Connor saw’ him in high argument with some flower-sellers. As tho constablo watched, Finch pulled out- a prodigious revolver, nourished it three times in tile-air, and then dropped it on the footpath. The flower-sellers picked up the weapon, and handed it over to the constable. ’Finch came on Saturday before Mr Cresswell, M.P., at- tho City Court, to explain why lie carried this weapon without permission. “Say, it’s this way. Didn’t know I had to get permission. Only cime here yesterday,” said Mr I’mob. “Bought the gun just because I guessed everybody in Australia carried ’em. Found tilings very pleasant., and had a few drinks. No harm done, anyway, I hope.” Mr Crosswell mildly pointed out that it was not customary to carry weapons in Collins street. He would discharge the ease. “But what about my gunt” “You may take it; but pack it away where it can’t do any harm.” advised Mr Cresswel 1. “It goes into my grip, sure.” promised Daniel Finch. “Say, Colonel,” he whispered to the court orderly, “Two dollars for the sick kids in the hospital.” Ho handed out 10s, and putting his “gun” in his pocket left tho court.