Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1910-05-15 | Page 13 | Shows Pictures Sent by Wireless

SHOWS PICTURES SENT BY WIRELESS English Inventor Also Received i Portrait by Telegraph Dur During During During ing Lecture Le ture APPARATUS IS PORTABLE EXPECT TO TRANSMIT FROM PROM NEW YORK TO LONDON London May 14 Thorne Baker F FC FC C S explained at the Royal Institution Institution Institution tion tonight the two systems of trans transmitting transmitting pictures by wire used by him himself himself himself self and Professor Korn He made the tile announcement that he be I had succeeded in adapting his system to the transmission of pictures by wireless He Lle also showed for or the first time a portable apparatus At the close of or the lecture a tele telephone telephone telephone phone message from the Daily Dally Mirror office at Manchester Manch received at the lecturers table announced that a pic pie picture picture ture would be transmitted A was connected with a direct wire and the au audience audience audience crowded around the table to see the portrait of a woman make its appearance dot by dot on the sensitized sensitized Used paper In seven minutes Mr Baker lifted the paper from front the cyl cI cylinder cylInder inder and passed the finished portrait around the lecture room Warm con congratulations congratulations congratulations were showered upon the inventor at the successful conclusion of the trial trl 1 Although there was not time to show an actual transmission by b wire less Mr Baker threw on the screen two sketches which had been sent in inthis inthis inthis this manner The first was a line por pot portrait portrait trait of ot the king In the second an island was wa seen and a lighthouse or fort By means of or letters the post positions lions of or sections of or an army on the island were designated while the shaded portion might mean that the enemy was in that Dart nf ot thi th island Such plans as these said Mr Baker could be drawn direct in shel lac ink upon a slip sUp of or metallic foil foU placed in a Rz portable machine coupled to a tL portable portable military wireless set and communicated from one section of an army to another The small porta ble machines I have already alread shown are used foi for the wireless and they possess the advantage that tapping of the communications would be quite impossible It is for this reason that I 1 think the method would be of ot much more value for mil mu purposes In describing his I system Mr Baker stated that It has been In Jn use by the DaU Dally Daily Mirror since July 1909 for tor transmission of photo graphs and has been worked regu between Paris and London and between Manchester and London Photographs taken In court in the case were actually received In London before the court rose a day being gained in the time of ot tion lion Dealing with the Korn selenium In strument the lecturer made the th an that Professor Korn is now at work on two new Instruments with a view to transmitting photo graphs from New York to London