WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY

Evening Star, Issue 18173, 13 January 1923, Page 3

WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY

LONDON PRESS ENTERPRISE.

SUCCESS ACHIEVED.

LONDON, January 3.

By the enterprise of the ‘ Daily Mail,’ wireless photography, after many years of experiments, is at least an accomplished fact.

The actual discovery bus been made by Mr T. Thome Baker, a well-known pioneer of photo-telegraphy, who since 1908 has been engaged on behalf of tho ‘ Daily Mail ’ in solving tho problem. Highly encouraging results were obtained by Air Baker nearly two years ago on a telegraph, but during the last few weeks improvements have been made constituting a wonderful advance. Tho method employed is wholly automatic, eliminating the possibilities of human error. Broadly it consists of placing a specially-prepared photograph on a wireless transmitter in such a manner that the photographic image is reproduced on a sensitive, film at another station.

Tho ‘ Daily Mail ’ publishes this morning a, wireless photograph transmitted between two buildings a hundred yards apart in three minutes. Tho blocks- aro of coarse screen, but, nevertheless, show figures and their action with distinctness. Tho ‘ Daily Mail ’ comments that the results, though surprisingly good, arc not perfect, but tho block shows that it p's now possible to reproduce faithfully _ pictures bv wireless. The comparatively coarse grain of the blocks is capable of speedy improvement. Long-distant experiments arc being commenced, and no difficultv is anticipated. The ‘Daily Mail’ adds that a new era in illustrated journalism is beginning. Tho wireless tape can now, automatically and without tho intervention of a human operator, tick out tho exact reproduction oi a photograph at a. distance. The pictorial news of a. continent may before long bo flashed through space.