Evening star., 1923-05-02
CAPITAL KEYNOTES
BY PAUL T.COLLINS

world. to movie fans" His name T..
not SO familiar as Edison's but the
DAY IS coming when it will bA
Slr. Jenkins has annihiIatcd ffs-
lance and made it possible to attach
70 every telephone in all homes means
whereby one may sit in his easy
chair before his own fresidc and ac-
tually see. pictured upon his own
wall as a movie. what is going on
anywhere in all the world, wherever
radio wireless current may reach
rms does not mean that he will see -
Photographic reproduction-he will
see that actual scene while it is uc-
curing. BY radio, he will at the sam
liine near the actual sounds OF what
he is beholding with his eyes, though
the event is on the other side Of III.
world. The whole world may be eye
witnesses of a battle in mid ocean or
across the seas; it may hear the boom
ing OF the guns, and see the airpIayI.-
battles above the clouds or in tho
depths of the ocean. Sitting in home
sweet home" we shall witness the
pomp and glory OF "A royal pageant
not picture of 1t, but the real scene
ana listen in to the blare of its trun
pets, Or to songs of grand opera 5000
miles away.
x x x :.
The inventor told how scientists
had been working for years on thr
problem Of transmitting vision By
wireless radio. but had been bafflcd
by not overcoming certain technical
links. He has found the connecting
links in certain revolving glass disks
mechanically ruled SO as to make
priSmatic lines, which control th
electric current, which. by wireless
as far as the radio can reach. will
reproduce current which VIII repro
duce parallel lines, with their gra-'
dations, exactly as they are at thu
sending station. These reproduced
lines are So fine that they are inyie
Bile as lines, making masses of light
and shade-making d reproduction Of
the original scene, as clear as an!
movie picture. The picture sent
need not be u photograph, but be the
actual living scene. shown through u
lens.
1t is not the technique which in
tereStS the layman, but the marvel
Gus accomplishment. In comparison
nothing heretofore invented SO ap-
peals to the imagination. It's init
mate relation with the environments
of every living person is beyond eX-
aggeration. 1t will give every home
a horizon as wide as the universe
1t will make every shUt-in a globe
trotter without leaving his bed.
Mid pleasures and palaces though h.
may roam,
Be it ever so glorious, he's got it al
home.
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This is not theory; the inventor had
his apparatus at the Press Club. ana
actually transmitted photographs and
reproduced them. His explanations
of the wireless transmission were
lucid and scientific, and he has al
ready demonstrated such tranSnis-
sion by sending portraits from Wash
ington to Philadelphia by wireless
4 single sending station may serve
d thousand or any number of receiv-
ing stations, and the newspapers of
tomorrow will be illustrated with
pictures of worldwide scenes of to-
day. 1t is even conceivable that the
day may come when the wireless Wis
ion will be synchronized with radio
telephony, SO that daily newspapers
will be superseded entirely by the
electric marvel just introduced.
Its possibilities for police service
and for every other form Of human
intelligence are SO revolutionary that
no imagination can begin to forecast
limits. The deaf viii hear-fcr mute
sign language can he transmitted any
distance. by the radio-Tision. The
blind may see, for the realism OF ra-
dio-vision will make the scenes clear
even to the imagination of tho blind.
The paralyZed may take the wings of
the morning and fly to the uttcrmosE
parts of the world.
x x x ::
What a wonderful thing it would ba
to be alive a century from today! Our
forefathers were caterpillars: VIC are
In the chrysalis; tomorrow will come
the butterflies. VIII their beauty and
their lights give them more happi-
ness than is possible TO us of the pres
ent, if we indeed dwell i'll q home,
sweet home" of the twentieth CEN
tury" There is Il tradition that our
eat-grandparent with their tallow
dips, their barn -raisings and their
simple pleasures, also had their ro-
mances and their joys.
(Copycighf. 1923. by L. V. Collnsl