The Daily Alaska empire., 1928-02-27
We Catch Glimpse of Tomorrow.
fNew York Times. ]

Even after magniGcation by lenses it was only three inches squareZthat fiekering image of a human face broadcast from laboratory in Schenectady and seen in few nearby residences. But it brought measurably nearer the day when broadeasting stations will be erected to reach the eye well the ear; when the living presence and the living voice of the President twill be transmitted into every household that owns teleyisor and radio receiver when the arrival of a Lindbergh in France Nicaragua will be simultaneously projected a million distant screens and the cheers that greet him will be heard by a million pairs of ears; when the performance in New York London of a great Shakespearean comedy will hold half a planet spellbound
 In principle Dr. E. w Alexanderson' system of teevision does not differ from that of the young Scotsman, Baird, to whose credit be it said that he the first to do for the eye what Bell, another Scotsman, did for the from that publicly demonstrated last year by Dr. Her bert Ives. Yet these who and loud speaker linked together in Schenectady, who saw a distant human form suit the action to the word, caught a glimpse of tomorrow. For pr. Alexanderson televsor occupies space than the present photograph cabinet Still but Ia laboratory achievement televison has already adapted itself to the spatial limitations of the home.
 What remains to be done lies more in the domain of engineering than of revolutionary in vention. Thus the problem of automatic syn fchronization of transmission and reception still remains to be solved A mans face must be optically dissected. In single second tens of thousands of optical fragments must be converted into electrical impulses and flashed by one in proper sequence single path in the ether. In the home they must be received at the speed and assembled to form a recog- nizable scene. So quick is the process that the eye, unable to follow it. is tricked into accept ing everchangng mosaic a one-piece image. To synchronize transmission and reception so that distortion is avoided requires nice regulation by hand. In the television apparatus of the future the transmitter and receiver will be kept in step by automatic device.
 Who doubt that instead of view half the area of postcard shall behold faces like size? To achieve that triumph we need more brilliant illumination than is now possible. There remains, too, the problem of restricting tele- vision to a reasonably narrow channel in the ether. At present wave-length band of such width is required that there would hardly be room for many teevison broadcasting stations.
 Of more interest than these difficulties are the sociological consequences of televison. Wat son, l want you" said Bell to his assistant over the first successful laboratory telephone Now the world is threaded with wires and we talk across the The letter 's' the first radio signal sent and received across the ocean Whole countries enthraed by broadcast
 voices that proclaim the love of Romeo and Juliet
 Surely we stand on the threshold of era
 We spoke somewhat grandioquently of "annihi
 ating space when the railway and telegraph
 were introduced. Space annihilaton, indeed
 With the infinite electrical extension of sight ant
 hearing the earth to shrvel into little
 ball that we can hold in the hollow of the hand