FILMS BY WIRELESS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 1 July 1925, Page 10

FILMS BY WIRELESS.

“WATCHING BATTLES FROM ' AN ARMCHAIR.” WASHINGTON, June 14. Mr. Francis Jenkins, a scientist, has successfully transmitted moving pictures by wireless. While the Secretary of the Navy (Mr. C. D. Wilbur) and other officials watched, Mr. Jenkins showed a picture of a revolving windmill which was sent from a station five miles distant. Within a year, Mr. Jenkins said, he hoped the apparatus would be perfect enough to send moving pictures to Australia. Mr. Wilbur said it was possible that officials, sitting in Washngton, would be able to watch the progress of battles in the next war. The invention was tried sussessfully two years ago, when action pictures were recorded in a room adjoining that where the “radio eye,” said to be the secret of the invention, was placed. The “eye,” consisting of a polished mirror of gradual thickness, and a number of smaller mirrors i its revolution breaks up the image of the picture into thousands of flashes, reflecting them into a photo-electric cell. The flashes take a number of stills of the moving object, and in producing them on the screen give continuity of action, similar to that of the cinema. The leading banks are experimenting with the “Telephotograph,” for telegraphing cheques. As the time required for the Reproduction of the cheques perfectly j s SX) minutes, the system will not be of much use in neighbouring cities, but it will lie valuable between distant points. The first cheques were telegraphed j»rom San Francsco, enabling completion within two hours of a transaction normally requiring ten days.