Show Long Distance I Television The State Department has been able to pierce the iron curtain through the Voice of America Many people have lon long felt fell that the hope of world peace depends on getting our messa message e of freedom to o the enslaved masses in the Russian occupied portion p of the world Carrying this idea a step fur fur- ther the State Department is now sponsoring a research project directed directed di die by Dr Edward M M. Purcell o of f Harvard which is working toward to to- ward the objective of or long distance distance dis dis- dis- dis tance television transmission If Ii it its it's s true that thai a picture is worth ten tho thousand sand words television could become a very important tool in the cold war against Russia Television now utilizes quasi quasi-op waves which are arc so short that their range is limited by the curvature curvature cur cur- of the earth Radio waves are not limited by bv the curved hump in in the earths earth's surface because because because be- be cause they are arc reflected back to the earth by several reflecting layers lay lay- ers called ionosphere They go up and down between the earth and the ionosphere until they reach their destination The S State te Departments Department's research which is aimed at bouncing some of the television waves back to the thc earths earth's surface from the ionosphere ionosphere iono iono- sphere has bas resulted in successfully sending television signals for miles f ro The scientists who are engaged in this research while agreeing that television to London is is a Ion long way off thing it is possible b by mounting relay stations in either cither Labrador or Greenland |