Television Experiments

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 35, 15 March 1929, Page 3

Television Experiments

"TELEVISION experiments, made by two Sydney radio amateurs, Messrs. W. G. Nichols and W. CG. Pinnell. have yielded results which are arousing much interest in wireless circles. Messrs. Nichols and Pinnell constructed a television receiver, but found that American, British, and Eurvpean stations were too far away to tune in They are constructing a_ television transmitter, but in the meanwhile have tuned in the ordinary signals of 2BL. As received through the televisor, these signals are transformed into _ light, and Mr. Nichols states that they show exceedingly beautiful designs. A violin solo, for instance, causes beautiful transverse rods of light to pass across the television aperture in an undulating motion. Then, changing suddenly, they will take on a curved motion like incoming ocean ‘waves,