TELEVISION FOR ALL

Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 19

TELEVISION FOR ALL

A complete televisor can now ho erected in anyone’s own homo at a cost of £6 10s Id (says the ‘ Daily Chronicle.’) _Mr John Baird, tho British television inventor, on February 20 opened tho first television shop at S'clfridge’s by pressing a button which started an amateur’s televisor and transjnitcd a letter “H” across a short space on to a screen. Tho inventor pointed out that the apparatus would transmit any silhouette and that the parts wore being specially sold to encourage amateurs to take up television development. Each intending constructor can, on aplication, get' a patentee’s sub-license free in order to make use of Mr Baird’s patents. “ These television sots are the elementary form, and enable only somewhat crude silhouettes to be transmitted,” said the inventor at tho luncheon party held to celebrate the opening of tho television shop. “It is, however, from this begining that I hope to instruct and guide amateurs so that they will be able to receive the television broadcasts now being sent out from our station in Long Acre. Anyone lis-tening-in with a wireless set on 45 metres after midnight will hear a peculiar humming sound. The amateur with a televisor will he able to transform those curious sounds into pictorial images. Thus television has entered the world of commerce because it is necssary for its development.”