TELEVISION FOR ALL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 28 July 1928, Page 11

TELEVISION FOR ALL.

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A complete televisor cart now bo erected in anyone’s own home at a cost of £6 10s Id (says the “Daily Chronicle”). Mr. John Baird, the British television inventor, on February 20 opened the first television shop at S<>liridge’s by pressing a button which started an amateur’s televisor and transmitted a- letter “H” across _ a short space on to a screen. The inventor pointed out that the apparatus would transmit any silhouette, and that the parts were being specially sold to encourage amateurs to take up tele-

vision development. Each intending constructor can, on application, get a patentee’s sub-license free in order to make use of Mr. Baird’s patents. ' “These television sets are the elementary form, and enable only somewhat crude silhouettes to be transmitted,” said the inventor at the luncheon party held to celebrate the opening of the television shop. “It is, however, rom this beginning that J. hope to instruct and guide amateurs so that they will be able to receive tbe television broadcasts now being sent out from our station in Long Acre. Anyone listen-ing-in with a wireless set on 45 metres after midnight will hear a peculiar humming sound. The amateur with a televisor will be able to transform those curious sounds into pictorial images. Thus television has entered the ""world of commerce because it is necessary lor its development.”