PHOTOGRAPHS BY TELEGRAPHY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 43, 11 May 1928, Page 3

PHOTOGRAPHS BY TELEGRAPHY

A DREAM COMI TRUE, The "Daily Sketch’ and its allied fiewspapeis will shortly install betwee Yondon aud Mauchester an apparatus for the transmission of photographs by telegraphy. The plant and apparatus are now wuder construction, and in the neat future the photograph of an interesting and important eveut in London will be available in Manchester in a few seconds, eliminating the time lost in railway transit and the limitations of aeroplane delivery, now frequently employed in order that the reader Lay have the latest news in pietures in the next issue of his paper. Within almost an hour of an event occurring in London it will be possible to have a picture printing in the Northern editions of the ‘Daily, Sketch" in Manchester, an achievement which has not yet been possible in this country. Dream of Years, Yhe rapid transmission of photographs by telegraphy is an achievement of which scientists, engineers and newspaper producers have been dreau.ing for yeats, a feat on which they have been working as well as dreaming, and tlie fulfilment comes in an instrument which produces the most remarkably accurate results. The "Daily Sketch’* and its allied fewspapers are installing this newest devolpment of photo-telegraphy, and placing its work and possilulilies et the service of its readers. Events the world over will be brought nearer in visualised form. The Post Office have under considerption the institution of a photo-tele graphic service between London and the Continent, linking up with the system i working between Vienna and Berin, A Glimpse of the Future, It is a reasonable possibility that within a few years it will be as casy to transmit a photograph by wire as it is to send a telegram between the capitals of the world. Photo-telegraphy will be a valuable addition to the great news and picture collecting organisation at present used by the "Daily Sketch" and its allied journals. Betwen Manchester, London, Newcastle, Glasgow, and Sheffield, and other towns, there already exists an enormous network of special telephone aud telegraph lines, the largest private installation of its kind in any newspaper organisation in the country, linking vp the industrial hub of the nation with almost every part of the country,