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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17832, 3 August 1923, Page 9

Of intense interest to newspapers, especially those featuring pictorial sections, is the innovation introduced in the United States by Leroy J. Irishman, a San Francisco scientist who has become the inventor of a system of telegraphing pictures, and * already several lifelike _ illustrations of scenes of prize fights in New York and other Eastern American cities have appeared next day in San Francisco daily newspapers. Before the San Francisco Electrical Development League the inventor demonstrated the new science by transmitting from one machine to another a complete picture, explaining the process now used bv the San Francisco "Bulletin" in -retting "wire photographs" from various parts of the world Leishmans invention opens up an entirely new era in the gathering of news photographs. Electrical experts, who have long a%jted his appearance in San Francisco, after his tour of the country, expressed themselves as amazed."