WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18761, 15 January 1923, Page 5

WIRELESS PHOTOGRAPHY

LONDON PRESS ENTERPRISE, Press Association—By Telegraph—Copy rig at LONDON, January 3'. By the enterprise of the Daily Mail, wireless photography, after many years of experiments, is at last an accomplished fact. The actual discovery was made by Mr T. Thorne Baker, a well-known pioneer-of phototelegraphy, who since 1908 bad been engaged on behalf of the Daily Mail in solving the problem. Highly encouraging results were obtained by Mr Baker nearly two years ago on a telegraph, but during the last lew weeks improvements have been made constituting a wonderful advance. The method employed is wholly automatic, eliminating the possibilities of 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 between 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 results, though surprisingly good, are . not perfect, but the block shows that it is now possible to reproduce faithfully pictures by wireless. The comparatively coarse grain of the blocks is capable of speedy improvement. Long-distant experiments are being commenced, and no difficulty is anticipated. ; The Daily Mai] 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.