Evening star., 1924-06-23

The many uses to which the in
vention of radio vision, made practi
cable by Mr.. Jenkins, as well as
radio photography, may be devel
oped are beyond the fancy of the
most imaginative. The police may
instantly supply the portrait of
fugitive from justice to every COM
munity in the country. Commerce,
education. science, the government
will find it revolutionizing present
limitations In every home possess
ing radio receiving set. not only
great oratory and music may be
heard, but the acting OF the perform
ers will he visible. The world ac-
tivities will be witnessed by millions
Of '1ookcrs-in."
ted, but these need not first be re-
duced 10 photography. The light Of
Ma ture. 'as is will be wirelessed.
and the lens OF the human eye will be
connected by the radio waves with the
lens OF the transmitting instrument.
though they be separated by half the
rotund world. so that the sending
the eye. making visible in America
the wild animals OF the African Jun
gle or the wonders Of nature or the
feats OF man. regardless OF distance.
This is ella lmed not as an uncertainty
Of distant future. but as an accom- :
plished discovery and invention
!: i:
Every photographer is familiar with
the ground glass in his camera on
hich the lens focuses in miniature
the scene before il. That ground
glass picture is sufficient from which
a transmission Of the scene may be
made. not only as still" picture,
but also as movie" The technic
Of the process how light Of size Of
a pinpoint passes over the picture in
straight parallel lines. and is re
fleet ed against silenium bar. where
the light sets up in the silenlum an
electric or radio current according
TO the intensity of the beam-hoW w
that radio in turn excites a speciaI
tiny lamp Of the receiving apparatus
a thousand miles away, and thereby
is rcconverted into light hich sensi-
tizes photogra plate-all tnat
is filled with technical details 100 IN
tricate to set forth in d paragraph.
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Plans are now being arranged for
sending from Washington TO Yale
| University a speech in the mute sign
language Chinese and japanese
messages in native ideograp phs can be
correctly broadcast by American oper-
ators to all stations in the orient.
| II the Shenandoah sails through the
/ air. next year. TO plant the America n
| tiag upon a new continent In the
| Arctic. it may be scientitIcally posi-
! BILE for millions Of Americans 10
watch the airship throughout its voy-
| age look down upon the clouds over
| which il passes. see and hear the
| nrashing iceberEs. see the aeronauts
| 4boa rdship and listen-in 10 the voices
| of command.
| Time was when such As Henry of
Navarro bade his army follow his own
| white plume into battle. In our civil
! war commanding generals were with
| their front ranks. In the world war
! the high command was twenty or a
/ hundred miles in the rear, where ii
! could visualize the "far-fiung battle
! line.
If now a war should break between
/ the United States and the antipodes &
/ the commanding general and admiral
! would sit in their headquarters in
Washington and see every move OF
their armies and fleets. through the
ewes" of transmitting radio in every
scouting plane. From headquarters
here the high command could work
! out the Strategies of battle or Of sew
I eral simultaneous battles in Europe
| and Asia and issue verbal orders
/ which would be Instantly heard by
the field officers al the front.
! All this iS possible through the
ia dio vision without wires. now being
Il \
Washington laboratory OF Inventor
! Jenkins.
Copyright 1924 by Paul Y. Collinsb