Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-12-01
Victory for America

New York. Nov. 90 portrait of
the President of the United States
was put OF the air in London today.
and 20 minutes later was reproduced
In New York.
AS the flushed picture was re-
moved from an oscilleting cylinder
in the offices of the Radio Corpora
ton OF America, the juggling stylus
which had drawn it remained poised
for moment. Then there was a
buzz, the stylus perked its head this
way and that. and, putting its inky
nose to the paper traced out a panel
in which 1t embroidered these words
from an old Chinese proverb:
zone picture is worth ten thous-
and words"
Again the stylus rested for a mom-
emit. and again it resumed dancing
upon that cylinder until, as the hours
passed, it perfected the likenesses of
Premier Stanley Baldwin Secretary
of State Hughes. the Prince of
Wales. Queen Mother Alexandria.
owen d. Young, showed H. NJ. s.
Reclamation aground in the Tees
river and the finish of the Oxford
Cambridge relay race and topped off
the performance with an artistic
AOui ON reproducing AAQl IL
from the Royal Academy.
Radio Corporation officials an
nounced at the end of the demon
stration that the all-American inven-
ton for radio transmission of Photo
graphs, paintings and printed mes
sages was 4 complete success.
With but little refinement. said the
inventors, the process could be made
available Immediately for the almost
instantaneous transatlantic trahspor-
tation of news pictures. of secret bust
ness messages, of diplomatic corre-
spondence and of Identification photo
graphs in police hunts for interna-
tional criminals.
The device through which It is ex-
pected all these things will become n
matter of routine radio transit be-
tween continents was developed by G..
Fl. Taylor. chief engineer of the Radio
Corporation, f. +. w. Alexander. con-
sulting engineer. and r. Ii. Roger,
directing engineer.
Owen y. Young, president Of the
General Electric CO.. set the inventors
working when he said. on the occa sion
Of Gen. James G. Harbord's inaugur-
alton as president of the Radio Corpor-
alton 81 months ago:
"Radio's big day will come when
one can look at a picture in a London
newspaper and say New York newspa-
pers are carrying the same picture to-
day"
The first Acknowledgements. as they
are called, were sent months ago-by
wire from New York to the radio
transmitting station at Tuckerton. n.
j.. thence by air $50 miles to the re-
ceiving station at Riverhead. l.. l.. and
thence again by wire to New York.
When those transmissions proved
SUCCESSFUL, photographs were trans
mitted by radio to England and return.
They could not be received in Eng
land because there was no apparatus
there, SO the radio impulses bearing
the pictures flashed from Riverhead to
the Marconi radio station at Carnar-
Won, Wales. and without being ''un-
scrambled were radioed back here to
be reproduced. Thus pictures actually
have been successfully transmitted
twice across the Atlantic in single
operation.
A feature of the apparatus Is that
1t operates as a single accessory to the
system of radio transmission now in
commercial use. Thus, while a picture
was being sent today. the London OPP
orator. would 'cut in" to send a news
dispatch and the nicture-malIing would
be arrested. When the dispatch was
clear" the stylus would resume its
bobbing and reproduction of the pic
ture would continue.
To send one picture required about
20 minutes. Computing the cost on
the basis of the number of words that
could be sent at toll rates during that
time. General Hartford figured the cost
Of transmission per picture at $50 TO
$40. The sending time is expected to
be considerably reduced.