TELEVISION WAVES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3893, 23 April 1937, Page 11

TELEVISION WAVES

Three new electrified regions, between five and '4O miles above the earth., discovered after a year’s observation by the National Physical Laboratory, England, explain why 8.8. C. television transmissions have reached much greater distances than were thought possible. The discovery explains why televised objects sometimes have a double appearance. Hitherto the fault was believed to lie somewhere in the process itself, but now it is clear that the cause is the reflection of the short waves from the newly-discovered regions. News off the discovery, which is one of the most important in recent years, was given to the Royal Society recently by Mr R. A. Watdon Watt, superintendent of the Bawdsey research station of the Air Ministry. Mi; Watt’s collaborators were Mr A F. Wilkins and Dr E. G. Bowen. “American workers have discovered the new layers, too,” said Mr Watt in an interview, “but we were first, which makes the new regions British.”