MORE WONDERS COMING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 457, 6 May 1909, Page 3

MORE WONDERS COMING.

PHOTOGRAPHS SENT BY TELEPHONE WIRE. It is probable that soon we may be able to dispense with telegrams, postage stamps, and mail carriers, by the simple process of sending photographs over our own telephone wires. Imagine how convenient it will be to sit down at the telephone desk in your office or home, call up somebody you want to communicate with, and then proceed to write that person a letter which he or she will be able to read in duplicate just as quickly as you can write the words down. And, if that particular party does not happen to be in when you call, he will find your letter waiting on his telephone desk for him when he returns, no matter how many miles away you were when you wrote it only a few minutes before. More wonderful still, and this by way of example, the police of London or Southampton may be asked by the Edinburgh police to send them a photograph of a murder suspect. The photograph is inserted in a machine somewhat similar in size and shape to a photograph; there is a buzzing of wheels, the photograph revolves rapidly in a cylinder, and in five minutes or less after Edinburgh asked for the photograph, a letter is received by the Southampton police reading as follows:—

“ Photograph received. Excellent picture of a man arrested here. Many thanks for your prompt attention.”