NEW RADIO DEVICE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 215, 25 August 1927, Page 9

NEW RADIO DEVICE

MAY REVOLUTIONISE NEWSPAPERS PAGES FLASHED AND REPRODUCED, SYSTEM NOT YET PERFECTED. London, July 18. A device for the transmission by wireless of fingerprints, handwriting and fashion-plates is being perfected in the laboratory at Chelmsford by G. -M. W right of the Marconi Company. lliis invention, if successful, will result in one of the greatest revolutions in wireless telegraphy of the century. Up to tiro present time such messages have been transmitted over only a distance of a few miles, and the inventor is now hoping to extend this distance until the system becomes as extended as the radio.

'The developments which would bo made possible by the success of this invention are amazing. An open letter or a postcard could be transmitted hy wireless and received in the exact handwriting of the sender. A man in an airplane during an operation would be able to make notes or sketches of enemy activity and they would be transmitted automatically to headquarters without his having to tap out Morse messages or speak by telephone. It would make Morse code obsolete in many important branches. The finger-prints of a suspected person arrested in some distant city would no sooner be taken by police officials than they would be verified by the police of another city, perhaps of another continent. The latest fashion-plates of Paris could be sent in this manner to New York. And since pictures could be transmitted in the same way, it would mean that the telegraphic news pages of the newspapers would be graphically illustrated with telegraphic pictures. Wireless pictures are already possible. of couse. but the new system through its speed and clarity promises to supersede all others. The invention would also result in remarkable changes in newspaper production. Tests that have been carried out show that in the simplest way each page can be Hashed from one office to another. This indicates that the time is not far distant when more months will be necessary before the scheme is perfected for use. It is expected that at least several the copy of a New York paper could be flashed across the Atlantic to Paris for its European edition.