PHOTOGRAPHY BY WIRE.

Colonist, Volume I, Issue 12126, 28 December 1907, Page 4

PHOTOGRAPHY BY WIRE.

A correspondent wrjting from London in November states I — At the ln : yJtaubn ,oi the editor of the "Ilaily Mirror," I was present last night at the first practical demonstration yet given in England of Professor Korri's wonderful invention for telegraphing photographs. A large company, amongst whom were a number, of leading scientists, assembled in the '•Mirror" building to hear P s rqfedaor" Korn lecture dii his iiew invention, add to,see the machine actually at work reproducing the, first plio.tor graph ever sent by ; electric current through a ; submarine cable. The "Daily Mirror" was connected by wire with the offices of "L'Ulustration" in Paris, and after the lecture the guests were shown the practical wording of Professor Korn's phototelegraphy machine. An electrograph of his Majesty the King was iirst received from Paris. A sensitive film was placed on a revolving cylinder, which is "enclosed in a box, and as | soon aa the current waa switched on the film began to slowly rotate and receive an exact copy of the iilm in Paris— an operation which occupied only twelve minutes; .The receiving Dim wafl,thbn taken off the cylinder And developed in the ordinary way. Next Paris sent a photograph of Sir Eieriry Campbell-Bannerriian, the Prime Minister, and again the trans 1 mission tooK only twelve minutes. Tn'en a portrait of M. Fallieres, the French President, was transmittod from the "Daily Mirror" oilice to the office of "L'lllustratioi!;" and this wa.s acknowledged to have been duly received at Paris. Afterwards the guests were asued to name a pubic man whose photograph they would like to have sent by wire to Pans, and the reply was "Mr Bel], M.P. " Accordingly a photograph film of Mr Bell was obtained from the "Daily Mirror' 1 art room and placed on the cylinder. The current was switched on, and the portrait was duly transmitted to Pans. Professor Korn i 3 at present only dealing with portraits, but later on he hopes to dfial with more Complicated photographs/and he looks forward to the time when we shall be able to see distant views by the aid of a telephone wire'in a similar way to that in which we can. now heat distant Sounds. Meanwhile eloctrographa may be expected soon to become a common feature of illustrated journalism in all parts of the world.