The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-12-01
PICTURES SENT
OVER ATLANTIC
BY RADIO USE
Remarkable Invention De-
clared Practical to be in
General Use
PROCESS DIES CRlBE d

New York. Dec. In a crowded
room at 66 Broad street, experts of
the Radio Corporation Of America
Sunday gave a public demonstration
Of the art of receiving pictures
across the Atlantic ocean.
It WAS almost uncanny to see a
fountain pen pluck from the air and
record on 4 cylinder no bigger than
u baking powder can the features of
famous faces selected in Maroon
house, London.
The new wonder was only Il few
days old. The first picture to come
across the Atlantic by wireless was
that of President Coolidge received
Friday 1t had been closely follow
ed by that Of Secretary Of State
Hughes.
An UnrUmantic Instrument
Tho busy little machine, sitting on
a desk scarcely larger than tea
table. seemed to good to be true. 1t
seemed unreal that from London,
5000 miles away, We're being sent
the linaments Of United States Am
bassador Kellogg, which took form
right under the eyes Of score of
eager watchers.
The receiving instrument seemed
like a printing press, as unromantlc
as sewing machine.
Then the machine stopped while Il
word message interrupted the half
finished picture. A joke about pro-
hibition wirelessed from newspaper
men watching the pictures being
sent from Marconi house, London,
followed by question as to the re-
suits in New York, brought the real
ization that the marvel was genuine.
1t brought to the intent group
watching the pen tracing the grow
ing vision OF another, similar group
in far off London observing the
picture being sent.
Other Photos Follow
Method cally the little machine re-
volved and turned, the pen moved
from side to side up and down and
in brief quarter of an hour, an
rnmistakable likeness of Ambassa-
dor Kellogg was apparent. Mean
while, on a concealed cylinder, rays
of light had impressed another por-
trait on a sensitive Photographic
film, making two pictures received
in one transmission.
In quick succession, there follow
ed portraits of Owen D. Young,
Dawes commission expert; Dowager
Queen Alexandra of England, the
Prince of Wales and Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin, as we'll as photo
graphs of the finish of relay race
and the raising of a sunken steamer
in the river Tees.
General J. G. Hartford, president
of the Radio Corporation Of Amer
lea declared that under favorable
conditions picture could be sent
in six minutes instead Of 20 or more.
When the first picture was sent be-
tween experimental stations within
the United States, three hours was
consumed in single transmission.
Hartford Traces Possibilities
Possibilities of the new invention
were traced by General Hartford dur
ing the demonstration. He said:
Checks and drafts may be sent
by wireless. Messages in code where
Typographical errors might be dan
gerous, may be transmitted IN
facsimile. Signatures and finger
prints can be compared instantan'
eously over widely separated dis
tances.'
Almost lost in the crowd of curl
Gus observers were the modest mer
who had wrought the miracle. They
had to be sought out. Principa
credit was given to Capt. Richard
Fl. Ranger. slight sandy haired
man Of 35 with spectacles. Captain
Ranger. married, lives at No. Fl.
Mont Clair avenue, New York. HI
was born at indianapolis, studied
electrical engineering at the Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology AND
served two years with the sigma
corps in France. T.. +. W. Alexand
the Radio corporation and Chief En-
i,eer {. n. Taylor were also givel
part of the credit for the great
achievement. Captain Ranger als'
acknowledged the assistance of Don
aid &. Ward, Aldred ]. Koenig, Car
MacIivain, and William Paley of his
research staff. Captain Ranger sale
he had made his first step towar,
attaining his end in February, 1923
and had been constantly at work OF
the idea since that time.
= Sending Was Hampered
The transmitting machine which
i. dispatched the pictures from Londor
yesterday were sent abroad month
ago. and installed at Marconi House
London. Donald G. Ward. Capital,
Rangers principal assistant, took il
abroad Mr.. Ward reported by ra
diogram that 200 pictures had bee,
filed with him for transmission
During the sending OF the first pic
ture the glass cylinder used at the
London end to filter light through
the film reproductions Of the pic
tuses was broken. This hampcre.
and impeded the sending.
2 For the present General Marlboro
said the Radio corporation had M
I facilities for and could not under
take Transmission OF pictures 10!
wireless within the United States.
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New York, Dec. 1.--Trans- atlanti'