Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-03-28 | Page 1 | U. of U. Engineers Flash Photo by New Means

U. of U. Engineers Flash Photo by New Means Students Transmit Picture of Week's Queen i By Wirephoto Successfully in Novel Test working with L. G. Hamilton, traffic chief of the Salt Lake Associated Press bureau, converted con-verted the electrics! picture ""tone" of the transmitter into a" light beam, then back Into electrical elec-trical picture "tones" after the beam had been scanned through a series of lenses and a photo electric cell situated approximately approxi-mately 50 feet from the Wire-photo Wire-photo transmitter. What the students aocom-pliahed aocom-pliahed was this: . The Wirephoto picture signs la were amplified Into a neon tube. The light from the tube was then directed onto a photo electric cell through a series of lenses across the room. The photo electric cell transferred the light impulses Into electrical Impulses, which. In turn, were amplified . Into the telephone line. Mr. Hamilton said the new tranamiasion method has possibilities. possi-bilities. He said It still Is In an experimental stage, but thst it may be developed for practical uae. " " Transmission of an Aasoclated Press wirephoto picture by means of a new process had been made successfully Thursdsy ln connection with The Salt Lake" Telegram exhibit at the University Univer-sity of Utah engineering week observance. Student engineers believed It was the first time the method had been used successfully. It Involves uae of a light beam and a photo electric cell located away from the tranamttter. A picture of Miaa Lejeune Brlxen, 861 Kensington avenue, engineering week queen, was taken In the engineering building, build-ing, where the wirephoto transmitter trans-mitter Is on diaplsy. The picture was transmitted via telephone wires to the receiving apparatus In the Tribune-Telegram build uig. Ordinarily, a Wirephoto Is transmitted through a light valve, photo electric cell and amplifiers. am-plifiers. But two university engineering en-gineering students, Joseph Ford Miller and Vernon Proctor, .. ..' ; t ' IT LOOKED LIKE THIS AFT KB TRANSMISSION Photo changed a little, but it was a good trick