SECOND EDITION. PICTURES BY RADIO

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16869, 5 February 1929, Page 8

SECOND EDITION. PICTURES BY RADIO

NEW SYSTEM EVOLVED SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS (Eloc.Td. Copyright— United Press Assii.) (United Service.i (Received Fob. 5, I p.m. i LONDON', Fob. I. Mfl renin 's at Unco the facsimile transmission uf ;i number of pictures and written messages between Now York mid Somerset on short'-wave by beam :il Iho \vi•( I; end, following throe years' experimenting. Tlip announcement adds flint tlicy scrapped all that had previously been done in the field of picture transmission, and. pvolvpd n system differing greatly from any other, whereby they are now able to transmit two images, Sin. l.y 10in., across the Atlantic in l'O minutes. Certain difficulties remain before practical perfection is obtained. From the published description, the process resembles in essentials the SiemensSchuckcrt, whieli the Post Office is installing in Australia, The Commonwealth Postal Department's acceptance of a fonder for the telegraphic transmission of pictures between Melbourne and Sydney invests with interest the investigation by Amalgamated Wireless of the possibilities of using the wireless system known popularly as Tel.epictures between Australia and countries abroad. Amalgamated Wireless is not associated with the Postal Department's new service, which will ho conducted on hind lines. The service, u hieh is likely to be available for public me in April or May, embodies a system already in use in fireal Britain ami in the United States. The system of Telepietures is now being conducted experimentally across the Atlantic Mr. Fisk, of Amalgamated Wireless. staled today that the time was not fn,r distant "when there would be a regular world-wide service.