WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18294, 10 January 1923, Page 7

WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY.

LONDON PRESS ENTERPRISE.

SUCCESS ACHIEVED. LONDON, Jan. 3. By the enterprise of the- Daily Mail, wireless photography, after many years of experiments, is at last an accomplishedfact. , '"■■'_ The actual discovery has been made by Mr. T. Thorne Baker, a well-known pioneer of phototelegraphy, who prince 1908 has been engaged on behalf of the Daily Mail in solving ; the problem, Highly encouraging results were obtained by Mr. ' ; Baker 'nearly j twofyears ago,; oh a but during the ' last : ; > fewweeks improvements have been made constituting ;• a wonderful , advance. The method employed is wholly automatio, eliminating ."[ the:'.. possibilities Vof 'human error. Broadly it consists in placing a specially-prepared photograph on a wireless transmitter in such a manner that the .; photographic' image is reproduced on a sensitive .film at another station. ■; The Daily -Mail: publishes, this morning a .wireless: photograph : transmitted .. be- 1 tween two buildings,.a hundred yards apart, in three; minutes. ; The ; blocks are of :■: coarse* screen, > but, " nevertheless, show: figures and their action 'with distinctness. • . ; The Daily Mail ; comments .that" the-re-sults, though surprisingly good, are, not i perfect, but the block shows that =it : is now possible to reproduce faithfully pic-' 1 tures by The comparatively coarse grain of the blocks is capable jof ; speedy improvement. ex- . periments ; are"/.'being.-;'; commenced, and no; difficulty is anticipated. '■• v The Daily Mail adds: that, a new era in illustrated journalism is beginning. "The wireless tape.can now, automatically and without the intervention of a human operator, tick out the exact reproduction of a photograph at a distance. .The pictorial news of a : continent may -before long be flashed through, space.