The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-09
TRANSATLANTIC TELEVlSl0N ENABLES
EYE OF MAN TO Peer ACROSS OCEAN
Demonstration Not a Complete
Success, For Images Shown
Are Somewhat Crude and
Distorted, But Great Posi-.
bilities of New Invention
Are Revealed
BY WILLIAM w. CHAPLIN
(AssOciated Press Staff Writer)

Hartsdalc, N. Y, Feb. 9.-(AP)-
The eye Of man, aided by science, has
at last been able to peer across the
Atlantic, although what it has been
able to see so far has been but dis
torted vision Of the reality.
Transatlantic television has been
taken out OF tho inventors star
chamber and demonstrated for just
what it is, the youngest child of
science, weak like any child but also
potentially Of great strength.
In the televisor of John l.. Baird,
British inventor, have been shown
images of q man and a woman
sitting fully 5000 miles away. The
images were crude, but they were
there.
For three months secret one-way
ocean tests of the Baird televisor
have been under way, with the trans
hitting apparatus in London and the
receiving machine, a box the size of
a steamer trunk, in the home Of r.
M. Hart, a short wave radio oper-
ator in this Westchester county vii
lage just outside New York.
Only Partially Successful
Success achieved was only partial,
but it was enough to convince the in
ventor and his assistants that the
time had come to take the newest
wonder of science out into the light
of inspection.
Last night transatlantic tclevision
was demonstrated with newspaper
men present at both ends Of opera
ton and they were invited to tell
just what they saw, without exagger-
ating the merits or minimizing the
defects of the experiment.
The group at this end gathered in
the Hart home during the evening
and Hart opened Morse communica-
tion between 2KZ, the London sta
ton, and 2CVJ, his own set. This
communication was maintained dur
ing the experiment.
Shortly before 10 o'clock Hart an
nounced that "the vision sound" was
coming through from London. This
noise was very much like humble
bees hum and was the representa-
tion in sound of the lights and shad-
ows Of the face of the subject before
an electric eye in London.
A. p. Reporter Present
Captain o. G. Hutchinson, general
manager Of Baird's company, Benja-
min Clapp, Baird chief engineer, and
an Associated Press reporter went
to the darkened cellar Of the house,
where the televisor was installed,
and saw the sound being turned back
into light.
On q whirling screen about six
inches by four, myriad tiny rec
tangles Of light appeared, looking
like a row Of tip.tilted skyscrapers
at night. These rcctangles began to
move, jostlc each other, shift and
swirl, and at last formed in the out
lire Of 4 head.
This head became suddenly more
distinct and, though the vision flut-
tered and dimmed. it was plain
Hart telephoned down TO say that
London reported the head was that
Of ventriloquist's dummy and thai
next Fox Of the London press asso'
citation would take the seat befor(
the electric eye.
The tiny oblongs of light wen,
through another dance and forTnet
another head, but this time Il VA
not 90 distinct, more nuttery, NOR
broken by flashes Of light. Bu
this time the mouth was seem Il
open and the vague head nnovol
from side 3 side and noddsl
solemnly.
| London announced then that tA'
next subject would be the wtfe q
| James Howe Of the London staff o
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