Is Television Here?

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 14, 16 October 1931, Page 4

Is Television Here?

An Authoritative Prediction ARRANGEMENTS have just been « completed whereby the National Broadcasting Company of America will convert the eastern half of the 85th floor of the Empire State Building in New York into the world’s highest television laboratory. The height is approximately 1000 fect above — street level, The new sight and sound © studios atop of the Empire State Building will feed directly into aerials supported by the airship mooring mast, the top of which is 1250 feet high. There are no very tall buildings in the vicinity. so the location should be ideal. M. H. Aylesworth, president of the N.L.C., in making the announcement. said that the reason for the aequisition of the new site was for the purpose of bringing television out of the laboratory and beginning experimental sight und sound broadcasts. We predicted that after about a year of intensive experimental tests under actual working conditions, television would be developed for public use. "This does not mean that it will be a hundred per cent. perfect," he said, "but television will at least have reached that stage where refinements of

technique will be required rather than the development of vew basic principles." This, together with other publie¢ statements which have been made recently by R.C.A. officials, is taken to | mean that. after several years of work" in secret, the R.C.A. expect to have, in about a year’s time a system of television which will be acceptable to the public. No details of this system are at present known, except that it is i. cathode-ray system, for the development of which Vladimir Ix, ZAworykin has been largely responsible.