BROADCASTING IS IMPROVING SCIENCE

Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3576, 6 April 1927, Page 8

BROADCASTING IS IMPROVING SCIENCE

Television Soon Accomplished Fact REPLY TO PROVOCATIVE CRITICISM [By Electric Cable-Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, April 4. ■ “Broadcasting is only five years old,” said Professor Low in reply to Mr. H. G.. Wells’s provocative criticism. “Yet it has increased its circulation more than Mr. Wells has. Soon we shall, have television. Mr. Wells is one of the most brilliant men living so he should hold to improve broadcasting.” Scores of experts point to the broad, cast of the university boat race, adding : “Doesn’t that answer, Mr. Wells ?", Mr. H. G. Wells, the well-known author, in an exclusive article in the “London Daily Express,” said that the future of broadcasting, like the future of the crossword puzzles and Oxford trousers, was very trivial. “Indeed,” he stated,' "it would be interesting to know how many original sets have been smashed up or have ceased listening in. What is wanted is not impartial. impersonal, unsectarian, noncontroversial, unprejudiced, kindly stuff through loud-speakers, but an invention such as the tape machine, allowing the wireless recording on a simple set'of news events of the world broadcasted by somebody knowing his job” COMPANY FORMED TO PROMOTE TELEVISION. LONDON, April 4. The Baird Television Company, with a capital of £125,000, has been formed to exploit inventions for transmitting news and portraits by telegraphic or by wireless. Mr. Baird, the inventor of the device, is one of the directors. DUTCH ELATED AT SHORT-WAVE . . ■ SUCCESS. . AMSTERDAM, April 4. Jubilation was caused in Phillips’ laboratory, and factory at Eindhoven by the news that its signals had been picked -up in Sydney, constituting a short wave world record. , The Phillips’ short-wave experimental station (PCJJ) originally announced its transmissions for Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of last week, but they were postponed till this week. The actual dates were not announced, and the assumption that an exact 1 week’s postponement had been arranged is countered by the cable message reporting the the reception in Sydney. WEDDING MARCH BROADCASTED IN VICTORIA. ■ •: ’ MELBOURNE, April 5. Victoria generally to-day will parti, cipate in a wedding in a Surall country' settlement. The marriage will be solemnised in a house, and the prospective bride, having no piano, asked the Broadcasting Company if it could broadcast the Wedding March. The request was granted.