HOW TO SEE ROUND THE CORNER.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 288, 14 May 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

HOW TO SEE ROUND THE CORNER.

A wonderful invention haa just been made in Austria, consisting of an apparatus called "Fernseher" (far seer.) Tho apparatus rendeis visible an object with all its colours situated " round the corner," or at a great distance, by means of the transformation of light waves into electric waves. In other words, the machine conducts optic appearance along electric wires and renders them visible in another place. It is said to be the solution of a problem ou which Edison has been engaged for 24 years. The owners of the patent which has been taken out are boasting that it will be the "clou" of the Parish Exhibition. The inventor is a poor Polish village schoolmaster named Szczepanik. The apparatus is in the shape of a telephone box. Herr Szczepanik the poor Galiciau schoolmaster, of whom it was reported recently that he bad discovered an apparatus by which distant objects can be brought near, had just sold the right of public exhibition of his machine as well as all the subsequent right for France, to the directora'e of the Paris Exposition of 1900. The price to«-be paid is 6,000,000 francs (£240,000.) The German Patent Office has already granted a protection for the invention, and Herr Szczepanik will shortly publish details of the apparatus. —Birmingham Dairy Mail.