Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-02-11


| liShman long time TO see Joke. but
| 1t takes still longer for a Scotchman TO
see across the ocean by television-a
method of extending sight which was
| invented In Washington, and here
| demonstrated on June Is, 1925, by Mr.
| G., Francis Jenkins, the inventor of mo-
! ton pictures. That first demonstration
, was made In the presence of the Secre-
tary Of the Navy, Mr.. Wilbur: the Act
ing Secretary of Commerce. Mr. Stephan
B. Davis. and several scientists. 1t was
| fully described in the Sunday morning
! papers OF washington, June IA, 1925
| Nows comes Scotch inventor, Mr.. J
L. Baird Of London. with a surprise
| with tclevision which spans the ocean.
| However, the public is not SO much
concerned whether the canny Scot OF
London or the uncanny Buckeye of
Washington reaps the pennies to come
from television as it is concerning
what television will do for civilization
/ and what other Improvements science
| has in store. Science now has a light
which makes 6-foot thickness of lead
| as transparent as plate glass.
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Yesterday, the writer visited the Blu
rcau Of Standards and talked with Dr.
Henry d. Hubbard on that subject. The
scientist was fayorably disposed to ap-
preciate the benefits of the new device
for seeing through the dark by radio
, seeing around the curvature of the
earth and through fog and night by
means of the ether waves. or whatever
carries sight and sound through space
/ without wires or lenses but he was even
. more impressed by another apparatus
which. In a few years. will be given
mass production" in invention and 60
far beyond either the jenkins or the
Baird contrivance
This is what DR.. Hubbard described:
Thinking Of the year 1850. or before.
as we will. may We give for the mo-
rlent free play to imagination and
fancy the specifications for the camera
OF 1850? Dare We expect a camera
with automatic focusing and aperture
adjustment. recording In full color with
blviSual s'ereoScopic effect. developing
the picture instantly. teiegraphing the
pictures exactly rs recorded auto
maticallv TO be filed and with mechan-
Ism Instantly locating any film without
index ana exhibiting II instantly: q
camera with self-sensitiZing plates on
which, not separate pictures, bu: a con-
| tinuously changing picture is formed
and erased after being teiegraphed 10
the storage room. camera equipped
with automatic cleaning of the glass
surfaces and the whole not TO exceed
In size the smallest kodak of today?"
The doctor was IN teasing mood
and finally explained that the camera
which he was describing was pair OF
eyes which nature had made millions
Of years ago. and which must be the
IA irx,S-
tate, Remembering the miraculous
genius OF nature. what device OF man
can be assumed 10 be impoSSibleH Com
pared with nature. how far has human
invention yet 10 travels
III the works of the General Elec-
trio Co at Schenectady. there Is a
machine called the Mechanical Man"
which does miracles nj the sound OF
Ills Masters Voice" II the command
be given 1t In ordinary tones the
vibrations OF sound will release cur
rents. so that the device will automat-
ically travel from one room Ia an
other and automatically open or close
switches controlling complicated ma
chtnery, The voice vibrations So affect
electrical switches within the apparatus
that II appears 10 obey With human
intelligence. yet II is only set Of CO.'S
and levers and electric wires. Hut be-
mind the making OF that intricate
mechanism. mans brains invented the
construction.
Now hitch that Mechanical Man TO
teleslsion and immediately a new
world OF wonders Is opened 10 human
exploration.
Jules Verne was century ahead of
science, but now science leaps mil
lenninm beyond jules Verne'S Twenty
Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
peep"sea dsser$~~how deep do they
ever deScenda Never more than 500
feet. while $50 feet Is counted AS quite
hazardous, Within a short time, there
will be constructed u metal container
capable ot resisting the pressure vi
water amounting to hundreds Of tons
per square meter, II will have glass
ports through which intensely brilliant
electric light already invented by len-
k.ns will iilumine the depths a mile
or three miles down, a. the metal com
talner or chamber lies upon the bot
tom vi the ocean The chamber will
rest upon wheels perhaps like cater
pillar" mechanism. which viii fesclve
when electric motors controlled Nv
radio from aeove. are set IN motion
And the wheels viii carry that meta.
chamber like n car. over the sea plains
or up ocean mountains os Into the
dark. mtathomed caves" sparkling,
maNhap, with many n gem " puteas
ray serene"
Inside the chamher vii, he 'one pas
senser the "Mechanical Man" III
something like him In rrine,ple, whieh
vii, guide rejecting lenSes 81 that, by
radio teleyisian. the Wonders NJ the
deep will W. envisaged far the nsAs
time, milrored u,san the ship above, II
ST. commanded, the Mechanical Man,
dawn there where no huaan could
breath a minute. viii Set his mottth
camera IN operation, ot take stills" 1T
the grand scenery, lighted WemSlN by
the electric iUmsnatlep The monsters
vi the depths viii nave susp,ciouslN
toward the meehanica, invader, and tur
the ttist time III the development Ut
biology NJ any ulhes "aiogN" Ne shalt
have movies 1T the huge hahitants et
the valleys 1T the ocean. even While
they arr In normal aetian.
What landscapes, What mauntain
ranaess What sefses and cave,ns and
pialnsl aalsossa iareats and ealai
castleAl All fancy that Mechanical
Man Al he s.nss IN hiinseli
My little Nat, = ttSh afaest.