A Much-Travelled Picture

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 8, 6 September 1929, Page 7

A Much-Travelled Picture

Remarkable Feat QNE of the most remarkable feats in the telegraphic transmission of .pictures was accomplished recently when a photograph of the scene of the hospital disaster at Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A,, was sent to Berlin, The first stage of its journey, from Cleveland to New York, a distance of over 400 miles, was accomplished over the land telephone line.. The three thousand odd miles from New York to England were by way of the Beam wireless service. From London to Berlin the picture was sent by. the Fultograph process, the final six hundred miles of the journey being: over the telephone line and submarine cable. The photograph was sent for the Scheri group of newspapers in Germany, and the fact that after being handled by three quite different methods of transmission and having made two sections of its journey over the wires and one by wireless, a picture suitable for reproduction in the newspapers was received. is a tribute to the high degree of efficiency -to which the sending of pictures by electrical means has now been brought. The most difficult part of the task was that undértaken by Fultograph, since it was inevitable that the picture should have lost a little -of its original sharpness during the two previous stages in its transmission. .The successful’ relay of the picture over its final stage by the simplest of all three methods used was a- notable achievement. .