SEEING BY RADIO

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 344, 3 May 1928, Page 13

SEEING BY RADIO

SETS ON MARKET LOW-PRICED INSTRUMENTS A complete televisor can now be erected in anyone's own home at a cost of £6 10s Id, says an English paper. Mr. John Baird, the British television inventor, opened the flr3t television shop at Seifridge’s by pressing a button, which started -an amateur’s televisor, and transmitted a letter, “H,” across a short space on to a screen. The inventor pointed out that the apparatus would transmit any silhouette, and that the parts were being specially sold to encourage amateurs to take up television development. Free Licences Each intending constructor can, on application, get a patentee’s sublicence free in order to make use of Mr. Baird’s patents. “These television sets are the elementary form, and enable only somewhat crude silhouettes to be transmitted,” said the inventor at the luncheon party Held to celebrate the opening of the television shop. “It is, however, from this beginning that I hope to instruct and guide amateurs, so that they will be to receive the television broadcasts now being sent out from our station in Long Acre. Anyone listening in with a wireless set on 46 metres after midnight will hear 'a peculiar humming sound. The amateur with a televisor will be able to transform these curious sounds into pictorial images. Thus television has entered the world of commerce, because it is necessary for its development.’