Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1936-10-30
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them, remarked:
"We've just got time for the
Eiffel Tower and I've worked out our
position. Everything checks"
Murray, what countries are two
hours ahead of Greenwich time?" ask
ed Sir Herbert.
GAIL depends. Do you mean solar
time or legal time? If it's solar time
it's around the thirtieth degree of
east longitude"
'I know that, but the solar time is
only practical for navigation. I was
referring to legal time"
"That's something else again. It
is regulated by the universal system
of time belts. The countries which
are two hours ahead of Greenwich lie
in the second time belt. I'll get the
list for you."
He went out and returned shortly,
a small volume in his hand. "Here
we are: Egypt, German East Africa,
Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia, Orange
and Transvaal, Portuguese East At
RIGA. In Europe: Finland, Poland,
Russia, Rumania, Turkey and Greece"
Thanks, Captain" said Sir Herbert
He seemed worried and merely toy
ed with his food. Jean, feeling that
he was once more in Sir Herbert's con
fidence, did his best to do honor to the
meal. Captain Murray ate heartily,
and left, apparently to inspect the
yacht.
Sir Herbert led Jean to the shelter
ed after deck. They seated themsel-
yes and smoked, neither speaking.
The Englishman rose and paced up
and down feverishly, finally coming to
halt before the artist.
"My FRIEND" he asked, "do you
know anything about television?"
"I've heard of telepathy; do you
think I was a victim of that?"
"No. You confuse mental with
scientific phenomena. Are you unac-
quainted with talevision? Haven't
you ever heard of Edward Belin?"
"The name is familiar, but I know
very little of science"
Edward Belin, profiting by the ex-
periments of Able Caselli and others
in more recent times, invented in 1907
the first apparatus, since rendered
more practical, for transmitting photo
graphs by radio"
81 didn't know it was PRACTICAL"
gasped the artist.
Everything that the scientific
mind conceives is possible. Since eth
eric waves bring us the strains of an
orchestra in a London ballroom, is it
impossible to conceive transmission of
images of the musicians and the dan
GERS? One is no more wonderful than
the other" observed Sir Herbert, and
continued
Light, like sound, is merely vi
bration. The problem is to capture
and direct light waves, as we now cap
ture and direct sound waves. Europ-
cans with television receivers, ten
years from now, will see as we'll as
hear the announcer and what he an
nounces in the United States"
''But that's still impossible" OBJ
jected Jean.
GLOW do you know? Belin was in
terested in television in 1895. The
9th of February, 1905, he sent the
first light message from Paris to
Havre. In 1922 he made a decisive
experiment before the Sorbonne. In
1928 he published an account of his
most advanced work and since then"
Pardon me, but since the problem
is still only theory ;"
"You forget that the definitive solu-
ton has not been found as yet. When
man opens new door in science,
others rush to enter and seek for them
selves, and it is not impossible for
the originators to be surpassed by the
pupils he has created. Someone /
know has studied Edward Belin's
works thoroughly and has spent vast
sums in experiments"
Someone?
George Frawley. my brother
whose room you now occupy"
The baronet turned his head and
seemed absorbed in contemplation OF
the ocean.
SIS he dead?" asked Jean hesitant-
ly.
Sir Herbert made an evasive ges.
ture and answered.:
"My father, Sir Robert Frawley, 9
member of the Royal Academy OF
Science, foresaw a great future fol
my brother as a scientist. I have al
ways been what / am now-an ideal
list. But was the oldest and the Eng
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