TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 273, 2 November 1932, Page 4

TELEVISION DEVELOPMENT

TYPED MESSAGES TO A SCREEN. Senator Marconi has disclosed another vast advance in mans’ power of communicating round the earth on which he lives. The great inventor has now perfected a new system of television by means of which • typewritten messages can be broadcast and read immediately on the screen thousands of miles distant. Furthermore, homes fitted with news televison sets could receive news lectures and other oral communications silently on walls instead of orally ns at present. Stock brokers, too, could see exchange prices without leaving their office chairs. The British Association for the Advancement of Science has already been given a demonstration of the new apparatus which is in the nature of a television tape machine. Neither atmospheric nor jamming affects it, and its only drawback, which Signor Marconi shortly expects to overcome, is that it does not leave permanent records but only shadows on the screen just like films. The intention is first to develop the invention to supplement the present cable system and later to use it for televising cinema films and public events. A speed of 120 words a minute in transmission is possible at present, but this may be exceeded later, British scientists who have seen its preliminary test declare that it will revolutionise transmission of news across the world because of its relative cheapness and simplicity.