The Washington herald., 1922-09-05

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teen pictures per second instead OF
one minute. and so the thing 4,
done. n
Therefore. photographs-by by radio
being an accomplished fact, in or
der to get motion pictures by radio
the only problem remaining for So
luton is speed.
And as light. which makes up our
motion picture. Is imponderable,
and has a speed OF $4,000 miles
per second. 1t is obvious that the
permissible latitude is many thou
sand fold the necessities of the
probleN involved. Motion pictures
by-radio seems. therefore, well
within reasonable expectation of
early accomplishment.
However. the development of
motion pictures-by-radio for the
home, etc, will not be undertaken
we'll established in useful newspa-
per service.
1t is also worth while to remem-
Der that as We are transmitting
pictures from a nat surface, We
need only to remove the picture
and let the lens look directly at
the object itself. a man. a house; a
mountain, and the reproduction at
all the receiving stations will be a
man, house. or a mountain. This
feature is perhaps one of the great
est values of the system.
We have available then photo
graphs-by-radio. and in anticipa-
tion of motion pictures-by-radio,
uses OF which may not be wholly
predicted. However,
The daily papers may now get
pictures of news events broadcast
ed from the immediate scene. and
WITHOUT the delay of any photo
graphic process at the sending end,
for the lens of the broadcasting set
may look directly on the scene.
and these pictures relsyed to great
distances. 1t means that pictures
Of news events get into the daily
papers just exactly as early as tel
egraphic text. Paris and London
events. for example. will. coming
west. be seen in America some
hours before they actually happen
(by the clock.)
these broadcasting stations for pic.
lures should help also to discourage
| forgery, embezzlement, robbery.
murder. and the like. because q
criminal suspect could be stood vi
in front of broadcasting machine
and his image appear in every
police station in the country
equipped with a suitable receivins
instrument. and the detectives in
vited in to look at and identify him
or to be photographed and filed
away for future use.
These instruments should also
have great tactical value. for no.
only can the navy and army send
secret messages, maps. etc. by the
new instruments. which cannot be
deciphered by the unauthorized. but
great battle on sea or land may
be watched from the offices OF the
chiefs of command in Washington.
But IT is in the homes that the
widest usefulness will ultimately
come. for by sending out music on
ne wave length and pictures on
another, an entire opera may be
enjoyed through both ear and eye.
q, all the family. old and young
listens in" and looks on amid the
comforts of their own home.
However. the broadcasting ov
music and of pictures brings a
SOLDERING responsibility for those
having in their hands this power
for good or evil sover the great
audience of family circles which
will be looking in every evening on
these broadcasted pictures. for the
new machine comes to the fireside
as a fascinating visitor. teacher. and
entertainer, without language, liter
acy or age limitation; an enter
tainer who will visit the old home
stead with photoplays and the opera
without the hinderance of muddy
roads or snow blockades, making
farm life still more attractive to
he clever country-bred boys and
girls.
Pictures by radio Is just another
of those funny little scientific toys
of which Washington may boast.
For it Is not at all surprising that
Washington should be the birth
place of radio pictures. The very
climate here seems to germinate
originality.
Has 1t yer occurred to any of you
to note that Washington is the birth
place of more scientific discoveries
which have led to revolutionary In
dustrial development than any
other ten-mile square in the whole
world? From Washington to Bal
timore Prof. Morse stretched his
first telegraph wire; nearby Prof.
Henry laid the first electric rail-
way and lighted 1t with electric
lights: here DR.. Bell developed the
telephone: Prof. Tainter the wax
cylinder photograph, and Berliner
the disc talking machine; both
type-casting machines were in
vented IN the District; Fessenden.
an army offices invented his wire
less telegraph system here; here
Prof. Langley worked out the prin-
ciple of the flying machine. and
here the motion picture was per-
fected. Washington is the scien-
tific center of the world though
America has never boasted of il.
BY the by. have you noticed the
additional interesting fact that each
of the great discoveries has been
the result OF an avocation, a play
thing during rest time from the
task weary monotony Of regular
employment?
The father Of photography was
an rrmy officer: of the electric
motor, a bookbinder's clerk: the in
ventor of the telegraph was a por-
trait painter; and of the jacquard
loom, dressmaker. A farmer
tinkered up the typewriter; a poet
the sewing machine; cabinet
maker, the cotton gin, and a coal
miner, the locomotive. The telephone
was the after school" work of q
teacher of the deaf; the disc talk
ine machine the night work of a