TELL-TALE TELEVISOR

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 5, 7 January 1928, Page 22

TELL-TALE TELEVISOR

SCIENCE FINDS YOU OUT. All sorts1 of speculations aro suggested by the demonstration in London of the "televisor," an instrument invented by John L. Baird (says the "San Francisco Chronicle"). Baird claims to have gone the other television experimenters ono better. They (so far as ho knows) have only been able to reproduce on their screens the images of objects seen under strong light. Baird's televisor is said to see where the human eye cannot, for it utilises the invisible infra-red rays of light. You may be in such darkness that you cannot see your hand before your face; but if one of the Baird televisors is focussed upon you the man at the other end of the wire has no difficulty whatever in seeing your imagine as a motion picture. Thus do the last vestiges of human privacy fall before tho assault of science. The obvious application of the Baird televisor has been assumed to centre about warfare. A scouting party, moving, as it thinks,, in total darkness, will have its every movement watched by the man at tho televisor's receiving apparatus; an airplane flying too high to be picked up by searchlights will be seen by tho televisor, and that without the knowledge of thy pilot or other occupants. But it is in the possibility of its utilisation in domestic life that tho televisor really opens a whole new field of doubt. How will one be able to say, "Sorry, old man, but I haven't n, cent," when the televisor belonging to one's impecunious acquaintance shows all too plainly the roll of bills in one's hip pocket?