Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-17
TELEWS|ON SETS
PROMISED SUCCESS
production Of Simpler Mech.
anism For House Use
Is Forecast.

Television in a newly advanced stage
mas been successfully demonstrated,
providing the latest miracle in radios
development. Although many phases of
radio vision have been worked out by
various inventors at home and abroad.
there are none for which the same
claims have -een made as for DR.. E. F.
w. Alexanderson's home set" recently
demonstrated by the General Electric
Co. at Schenectady.
Moving pictures of a man smoking a
cigarette and another playing a uku-
lele were shown through S-by-3-inch
apertures in bulky cabinets containing
the mechanism for reproducing the
high-speed light trsnsmissions which
make possible the reception Of pictures
by radio. Their voices were synchro-
nized with the pictures on ordinary loud
speakers standing next TO the television
cabinets. so that those who attended
the demonstration at three different
places saw and heard their features and
voices reproduced quite naturally
The construction Of the cabinets
presages the introduction Of even
simpler sets In the homes of the land
Within few years. David Sarnoff. gen.
eral manager Of the Radio Corporation
Of America, predicted. The inventor
nlodestly referred to the demonstration
as being the starting point of prac-
tical and popular television."
The A. T. G. T. Co. at its Whip
panv, n. J.. laboratories. demonstrated
televisicn last year, suggesting its po-
tentialities. and great interest was
reused when the features and voice of
Herbert Hoover were carried over the
wires from washington. Other expert
nlenters are working on the transmits
sion Of both still and motion pictures
by radio, with varying claims as to
results
For example. Laird. the Scotch in
ventor, has been so successful with his
experiments in England that it is re-
ported he proposes visiting the United
states 10 demonstrate his apparatus
and possibly TO attempt flashing motion
pictures across the Atlantic c. Francis
Jenkins. the Washington inventor.
whose weather nap by radio has been
installed on Navy vessels and on the
olrigihle Los Angeles, recently pre-
oicteo that IL was only q matter of
months before movies can be received
IN the home via radio on moderately
priced sets.
Mr.. Jenkins, who has been working on
the problem many years, said that
vision by radio is simply a more rapid
Transmission Of objects which have
been translated into electrical energy
and at distant points changed back
into fac-simile Of the original, whether
II be stu picture or a picture in ac-
ton"
Practically all OF the television and
1ecSlmue work Is done on short waves.
the Alexanderson device using as
meters. But Station wOR, Newark.
announced recently 1t would broadcast
photographs on its normal 423-meter
wave some time this month. The de-
vice to be used is that invented by
austin Q. Cooley. who demonstrated at
the Radio Worlds Fair at New York
recently how pictures can be received
py radio on sensitized paper on receiv-
ing sets that 1t was claimed would cost
less than 800 70 install The Ranger
system" employing the principle of
throwing air jets Of varying tempera-
lures On a sei1sitized screen TO produce
pictures was demonstrated before the
Institute Of Radio Engineers at its
meeting In New York last week by Capt.
r. H. Ranger. r. G. A. engineer. whose
apparatus vas tried out last year on
the cruiser Seattle.
The half-hour Voters Service" pro-
gram to be presented through wRC at
2 O'Clock this evening viii bring before
the microphone Charles d. Hiiles. a
member OF the Republican national
committee. and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
o member Of the Democratic national
committee. In Join discussion on the
subject Some Historic Presidential
Campaigns"
The two talks viii be based upon his
toric differences between the two par
ties. With special reference TO the 1928
presidential campaign and some of the
i1Sues 70 confront the voter at that
time
The Eveready hour. TO be heard
Through WRC at o'clock, will feature
Kathleen Stewart as piano soioist. Miss
Stewart has been engaged 10 play the
Second Piano Concerto" by Saint
6aen4.
Hester Walker Eeale. well known
Washington dramatic reader and a
prooucf Of the Leland Powers School
o. Boston. viii be heard over WRc at
7:30 O'Clock
WRHF viii feature this evening
dance program By George SHADING and
his Congyessaonais, while WhfAl'S chief
attraction is the weekly radio movie
club. The Fellowship Forum station.
WTFF, viii broadcast ceremonies Incl
dental 70 the installation Of officers Of
the National Grange from All Souls
Unitarian Church