WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHS.

Shannon News, 9 January 1925, Page 3

WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHS.

COULD BE SENT TO NEW ZEALAND. LONDON, Dec. I. The. Marconi Company has seated that a report has been cabled from New York regarding the successful reception of. photographs sent by wireless, on November 30, and which were published, on the front pages. Qf. the American newspapers. London correspondents of. New York newspapers were recognised by their editors in a group photograph taken in Marconi House.

. "If transmitted with appropriate, apparatus in Britain, Canada and Australia, photographs could toe transmitted between London and Sydney by tne beam system," said a Marconi, ofiiciaj. "When Mr Bruce and Mr Massey speak at the next Imperial Conference it ought to be possible to transmit the scenes to Australia and New Zealand in two hours. • Similarly, newspapers, could immediately receive pictures of topical events, personalities and fashion-plates. "Many inventions for sending photographs by wireless nave been tried in recent years. An American corporation in conjunction with ourselves lias now evolved a practical proposition, which will shortly reach a commercial stage. The cost of transmission in the early days necessarily will be heavy."