A NEW WONDER
(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph .—Copyright.] (Received this dav at 12.25. p.m.) NEW YORK, January 11. Some day soon you will be able to sit at home and watch tile actual historical conflagrations of ages ago, flash by on a screen. '7he burning of Rome, while Nero fiddled and sacking of Troy—these spectacles are bobbing about somewhere in space for light waves never die. It is merely a matter of recapturing them, and this event may ho just around the corner. This 'fascinating problem which will enable the world to see, through radio broadcasting, is near commercial solution,’’ said 0. Hansen of the National Broadcasting Company. “Waves generated by the human voice,” he said “have their limitations, but when they are transferred to radio waves there is no limit. The voice hits the walls of buildings rebounds an dies or rather dissolves into heat. For that reason the theory that we may get a record of human voices of the past is unsound, but light rays are different. Seeing by radio is inevitable..”
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1931, Page 5
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176A NEW WONDER Hokitika Guardian, 12 January 1931, Page 5
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