VERGE OF REALISATION.
TELEVISION INVENTION. LONDON, April 21. Television may bq said to be on th« verge of realisation, per medium of Mr Baird’s invention. Mr Baird explains that the apparatus succeeds in. changing the face, firstly, into a fluctuating electric current, which is heard, by wireless headphones. Every face or object gives its own characteristic sound. These then are connected with a televisor, which transfers them to a screen of the apparatus as an exact image. The first successful demonstration of trans-Atlantic television took place today, when “sounds of the inventor’s face” were picked up in New York. Subsequently JVIr Baird spoke on the trans-Atlantic telephone with a listener who “sounded like nothing ever heard. He resembled scratching/’ Mr Baird is going to America for the purpose of reproducing a sound record on the televisor.—A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 124, 23 April 1927, Page 9
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