PHOTOGRAPHS BY TELEGRAPH.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2582, 17 April 1877, Page 2

PHOTOGRAPHS BY TELEGRAPH.

The Paris-correspondent of the London Standard thus writes on a discovery recently made in telegraphy:—" It has often been said that the science of tele* graphy is as yet only in its infancy. What it will be when it.reaches maturity it would be difficult to say with certainty, but some idea may ■ be , formed from an extraordinary telegraphic discovery just made in Paris. It appears that some inventor has found out the means of sending portraits by telegraph. The modus operandi has not yetbeen disclosed, but experiments have been made—if we are to believe the papers—with complete suscess. The trial was made by the police authorities of Paris and Lyons. The .portrait of a Lyons official was forwarded from Paris by the new telegraphic apparatus, and was at once recognised.--. In return the Lyons police telegraphed to Paris the portrait, accompanied by the usual description, of a clerk who had just absconded with his master's money, and ■ the Paris police, thanks to the telegraphic 'portrait, were enabled to arrest the thief on his alighting frcm the train at the railway station. The facts are published on the best authority, and incredible as they may seem, are no doubt authentic. So far the ingenious discovery is only now being employed for the detection of criminals ; but it is evident that the police authorities will not be able to monopolise it, and that it wi'l be turned to account by society at largo under the various trying circumstances of life, and more especially in the case of deserted wives and husbands, .missing heirs, disconsolate lovers, and similar interesting beings." *