NEW WONDERS PROMISED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 9

NEW WONDERS PROMISED

PART OF TELEVISION IN WAR. APPARATUS TO SEE THROUGH CLOUDS. Just before his departure, Mr J. L. Baird, television pioneer, now on his way to Australia for the World Radio Conference at Sydney, discussed new lines of development in this latest scientific marvel. The first man to televise pictures, to present television on a cinema screen and to create colour television, is exploring the possibilities of television in aviation, with particular attention to the bomber in time of war. “Pictures of everything going on beneath an aeroplane, flying thousands of feet up, will be registered on a television screen in the cockpit of the machine, and with equal facility can be relayed from the aeroplane to army headquarters far behind the home lines,” he said. “Television will be able to pick up what is going on far behind enemy lines and provide a living image of it all, simultaneously with the actual movements to the opposing army headquarters,” he said. ■ What can be done in times of war with television can also be done in times of peace to help toward safety of life at sea.

“As movements of troops invisible on land can be pictured by television on a screen in the cockpit of a flying aeroplane, so pictures of obstructions at sea can be televised on the captain’s bridge of a liner.”