FIFTY YEARS AGO
PHOTOGRAPHS BY WIRE Good progress, was being made 50 years ago by the famous inventor Thomas Edison with a device for sending pictures by wii-e, a process which is now possible by radio also. The following extract is taken from the New Zealand Herald of .March '3O. 1890: "Edison is engaged 011 an invention for taking photographs by wire. This invention is destined to rival the telephone and phonograph. It is worked very much in the same way as the telephone Instead of transmitting sound, however, in some unaccountable way which Edison refuses to tell, it transmits light, by means of whicjli a photograph can be taken of a person when sitting at remote distances. Edison has succeeded in getting some very good impressions, but has not perfected his invention."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 8
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133FIFTY YEARS AGO New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23618, 30 March 1940, Page 8
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