The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-18

were hindered at the start when re-
leased simultaneously from one bas.
ket This picture showed the pig
cons did interfere.
By chance facts that pigeon experts
had never known were learned. The
pigeons wings were seen slowly ris-
ing on the up stroke until they touch
ed over its back; then they dropped
on the down stroke and touched be-
low its breast. The pigeon flies SO
swiftly that this popularity had never
been apparent to the eye.
The pigeon breeders were surprised
to find, too, that the feathers at the
tip of the wing spread like fingers as
the wind goes through them on the
up stroke.
Since the tumbling pigeon taught
aviators how to loop the loop, 1t may
be that the birdmen can learn further
secrets from the pigeon by the close
analysis of it's flight that is now pos
sible
This camera is for scientific pur-
poses. Just as very high powered
microscope is necessary for some ex-
acting laboratory work. so the ultra
rapid camera, with a prospect of at
tanning 100000 pictures a minute, will
have its place in scientific research.
Also Sends Radio Pictures
Mr.. jenkins has lately been attract
ing great interest by another inven-
ton of his, an instrument for sending
pictures by radio. He has already
sent pictures successfully and now he
is working to send moving pictures by
radio. He knows how it is to be done,
but he estimates that it will be about
a year before the necessary addition.
al instruments for the higher speed
will be completed. The instruments
for all of his work have to be made
in his own laboratory, or else he has
to have them made at great expense
and difficulty by manufacturers. The
necessary apparatus or parts are not
commercially available.
Sending moving pictures by radio
is merely an amplification of the
method by which ordinary pictures
can be sent, the inventor says. The
main principle of the camera used in
all of his work is a prismatic ring, a
new optical shape In glass.
by means of these prismatic rings
and photo-electric cell at the send
ing station, the light characteristics
which make up picture are convert
ed into electric current characters
tics" Mr.. Jenkins explains. "These
in turn modulate radio waves EN-
ployed as carriers. When these ar
rive at a receiving station the electric
characteristics are changed back into
picture characteristics by means Of
another pair of prismatic rings and :
| light valve and the scene at the send
ing station is reproduced with fidel
! ity.
"An actual scene may be transmit
| ted as readily as drawing or photo
graph. At the several receiving sta
lions it is reproduced on photo
graphic negative with duplicate print!
or on moving picture screen for di
rect viewing.
1.-THE daily papers may get picture!
of news events broadcasted from thu
| immediate scene without the delay o
any Photographic process at the send
! ing end. Paris and London event
| coming west will be seen in Americ;
some hours before they happen b,
the clock.
"a criminal suspect may be stool
up in front of broadcasting machin
and his image appear in every polio
i station in the country equipped witt
a suitable receiving instrument De