HEARING A FACE

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 72, 18 December 1926, Page 11

HEARING A FACE

A BROADCASTING PROSPECT. Before lon r i a ’’SLS w°e de 6hall CO b n ; ' sideration, it. is !isten The able to look in as well as and it works (says the London Jhnrms are graph”). The person , whose charms ar to be broadcast stanos Jjonto f the transmitting a ? d ~ep|i se n- ' reflected from his face affects a cell sen sitive to light., and causes it to send out. a fluctuating current That ■ the person whose countenance n- being , broadcast. have all heard of the darkness that could be felt «« have to accustom ourselves to faces. tw ran he heard, nav. that will bo nearn. Tt in imppens thus. The elect™ wave which carrie-- the "nat?c h ?ss^ i ?£ things’ no interest in it. Io electricity ... • i seen are not mightier than things heard, but just the same A current turned into a televisor n™duce. light and :i picture, but turned into a telephone it gives forth sound in the good old wav. Thus, it may befall the listening millions to hear a race, o ■ To that matter, other parts of »be huma frame. For we are told that a ham’ held in front of the transmitter ean a harsh, rattling sound but a face give, n much gentler, softer note There are. however faces and faces. One Wee borne to you over the ether will nffj the tclcnhotie, wo are a. • rii). rip*’ Another U merely zur sun i gnr” It seems .likely that this is not all For some countenances am com plexions these ramark* seem quite in , udenuate. Mr. Baird tantalise* our curiosity. Has be yet discovered how , beautv sounds—or that, which is not beautv? The face which a J n ’A < T a . 1 thousand ships, if he could get hold of it. ousht to make t rat U er 4 . d S C ir r e music. On tlic other hand, there w MJ*. But xvc refrain. Tt 3 to ns that Ihi<- machine will need careful Irimllinp. It rom=c? a certain apprehension to he told that every face has itown note, and every movement causes the nnto to change. We have no joy in the promise that we shall bo able to •‘hear □ man opening his month. There is too much of that already.