TELEVISION AT SEA.

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 May 1928, Page 14

TELEVISION AT SEA.

RADIO OPERATOR SEES ’ FIANCE A .Press Association cable message from London, recently published in the New Zealand Press, reported that, by means of television, the chief radio. operator of thie Atlantic liner, Berengaria, at sea, was able to see his fiancee in London. . The "New York Times" published tollowing wireless report of the exe periment :- London, March 7.-Television spanned a thousand miles of ctean early this morning to reunite Chief Radio Operator Stanley Brown, of the Berengaria, with his fiancee, Miss Dora Selvy, in London. For twenty-.minutes, Miss Selvy sat in front of the transmitter in she Baird Laboratory in London, while Brown, far at sea, watched her smile and gesticulate, and saw her big brown eyes looking straight at him out of the Berengaria’s receiving set. A characteristic litle habit of Miss Selvy’s of arranging ler dark bobbed chair at the back of her head first made Brown recognise her in the television, according to a message received from the Berengaria by the Baird Company. Then, when she turned and appeared in profile, Brown was convinced of her identity. A Thrilling Experience, The message telling of the success of the experiment was sent to the Baird Company’s managing director by Captain Hutchinson aboard the Berengaria. ‘This message told how thrilling it was to see the images from home so. far at sea, and said the ship’s radio continued to function during the entire test. Miss Selvy, who is employed in the Loudon office of the Western Union, said later that it was casier than posing for a photograph. She said it would have been even more thrilling to have spoken into the transmitter, or seen an image of Mr. Brown tlirowa on a London sereen. Talked and Smiled. "TY felt quite natural through it all," she said. "I simply had to face the apparatus, as I had been told to de. I talked, smiled, and turned aroundI suppose that was just to prove to him that I was a living being. I was very much excited about it, of course, I wonder how I looked so far away.’’ J. U. Baird, the television expert, explained that the apparatus aboard the Berengaria was nothing new, and was similar to that which sent 1mages from London to Glasgow more than a yeat ago. "We deliberately used an old and well-tested apparatus,’’ he said. ‘Jf the Berengaria had had the necessary complex apparatus, it would have beem entirely possible to send Rrown’s picture back to Miss Sclyy in London." Recorded by Gramophone,

A record of the photograph of Misa Dora Selvy, sent by television from the Baird Laboratory in Tondon to the steamship Berengaria in mid-ocean on March 6, (says the ‘New York Times") was picked up by two amateur radio operators in Jamaica, Qecens, New York city, during the transmission, ft was learned last night at the home ef Boyd Phelps, operator of tadio station 2EB at 8505 1é7th Street, Jamaica. The picture of Miss Selvy was recorded on an ordinary phonograph dise by Phelps and Werner H. Olpe, operator of radio station 2BU0, 1£ Brooklyn Avenue, Jamaica, with the aid of an ordinary receiving set, to which parts worth approximately 15 dollars were added for the test. Boyd said he was mailing a copy of the photograph to the Baird Laboratories to prove his claitu that he picked up the picture in transmission. Phelps and QOlpe had been on the look-out for but until the night of March 6 they had been unsuccessful. When Boyd detected the signals, he sent for Olve, and for a professional piano tuner. In a written statement given out last night, Phelps said the picture was ‘heard’ about 9 p.m, and the trims. mission lasted mere thai an hour.