WONDERFUL WIRELESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 113, 28 September 1912, Page 1 (Supplement)

WONDERFUL WIRELESS

PICTURES KENT THROUGH THE AIR 1!Y TDK TELECTROUKAPH. ''Pictures liy air" is the latent development of wireless telegraphy, and it is confidently anticipated that within a few months it will be possible to transmit drawings, documents, letters and typewritten matter bodily in picture form from London to New York, for example, or between land stations and ships at sea. Such pictures have already been despatched by wireless over long distances, and the greater development is merely awaiting the completion of certain instruments by the manufacturers. The "electrograph" is the name given to the iutrumont that performs this twentieth century miracle, and by its means it is proposed to inaugurate a commercial system for the transmission of

PHOTOfIRAPIIS BY WIRE. A photograph sent from Paris to London for purposes of reproduction in a newspaper can be delivered in block form ready for printing within 40 minutes, whilst "the Criminal Investigation Departments of Paris and Scotland Yard will be able to exchange photographs of suspects within a quarter of an hour. One of the achievements of the (;telectrograph" will be the establishment of a keener rivalry between fashionable society in London and in Paris. Parisian costumiers are already making arrangements to "telectrograph" photographs of the latest creations to London the moment they are complete. But th» wonders of the "telectrograph" be confined to a privileged few. An apparatus has been designed for the direct projection of pictures on a screen in the progress of transmission, so that a large audience may watch the image materialising as it is flashed electrically across the wires or through space. Many music-halls and clubs are stated to be considering the installation of one of these instruments.

UNPLEASANT FOR ROGUES. The telectrograph promises to make things very unpleasant for rogues and vagabonds. Finger prints will henceforth be as easily and as rapidly transmitted from continent to continent as a prepaid telegram. 'When the "wireless" side of the development is completed in a few months, attempted flight from justice by first-class passenger ships will be absolutely futile. As the result of recent "wireless" experiments conducted across the Wash, by consent of the Government, the telectrograph promises to play an important part in the warfare of the future. Portable outfits have been devised whereby sketches of forts or the position of an enemy, after production upon and delivery by aeroplane, will be capable of immediate transmission to and reproduction upon any part of the scene of action. Teleetrography is not altogether new in principle. Mr. ThorneBaker and Captain Otto Fulton, the joint inventors, have been able to transmit photographs by telephone wire for three or four years, but electrical interruptions were occasionally experienced that militated against its general adoption. To-day this is all changed. The old difficulties offered by the telephone wire, with its limited radius of action, have been overcome. Whereas 300 miles was the greatest distance that a picture could be sent with any positive efficiency, this has been increased to 5000 miles, and the difficulties of the telephone wire .surmounted by the use of the telegraph cable. The cost of transmission is- also stated to have been reduced to onethird. MARVELLOUS DEVELOPMENT.

Captain Otto Fulton, discussing the latest developments with a newspaper representative, suggested that the telectrograph has possibilities far beyond those at present apparent. He considers that it will eventually stimulate all art and industries in which illustration plays a part in much the same way that the electric telegraph stimulated commerce in the Victorian era. But Captain Fulton is not content with the mere electrical despatch of pictures across space; he promises to reveal to the world in a few weeks' time a natural color process of cinematography which entirely uispenses with the use of celluloid, and produces the finest possible results without the slightest risk to the audience of injury by fire. At a recent demonstration of the "telectrograph" at the Criterior Restaurant, photographs of the King and the Lord Mayor of Manchester were received from an office in Manchester and forwarded to the Lord Mayor of London. The pictures were built up upon a revolving cylinder as they came across the wires, in the full view of a large assembly.