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Show How PICTURES Are Telephoned by CODE " . 9 f t y i -ill. 4i If iilff - 'MCTUKl. "TOIKHCO CMIiULIWCIUWat M HISSUI NfCtWlltlt Wte UNt " ui sits) i. tiKi.MiIn The Successive Stares in a New Method Evolved for the Tranamieaioa of Photographa or Other Picture by Code, Over Telegraph er Telephone Circuits, aa Well aa by Radio or Cable. The Original Photograph W'aa First Retouched or Redrawn ao aa to Resemble a Line-Cut. Shown In Fig 1. A Transparent Code Scale (Fig. 2) la Then Placed Ore the Line-Cot (Fig.S) and the Black and White Portions of the Picture Coded by Noting the Uaea Which the Black Portiona Intersect. IT ts reported In a recent cablegram from London that the young Danish inventorThorvald Andersen, has de- vised an entirely new system of transmitting trans-mitting and reproducing photographs over long distances, which system has great promise. Andersen's invention, which is pictured snd described in Science Sci-ence and Invention, makes it possible, it is claimed, to telegraph, telephone or radio a photograph as fsr as either of the electrical circuits his system employs may extend, which means, of course, across the ocean, or across the United . fiUtes. , When the young Danish Inventor was invited to demonstrate his system in England, a London newspaper published three photographs cabled from Denmark across the North sea. A unique feature of this demonstration demonstra-tion of the Andersen system was the fsct that the three photographa selected were picked out from a number of photographs pho-tographs after the inventor had started on the Journey from Copenhagen to London, Lon-don, and were transmitted via the Andersen An-dersen system by his brother in Denmark. Den-mark. When the inventor arrived in London, the three cablegrams in code from his brother awaited him. It is claimed that Mr. Andersen uses "I I I I I I I I I H I l ' l I sees' m eeeeeeeeee -..- X e e e a e e e e a eeeeeeeooe1' w-:-x-:-:-:-:-:v ,. yx :-.:.:.v.nxo:':':?x-x-S sen can be taught to anyone in a short tine, so he says. "So long as the code words are accurately transmitted," stated Mr. Andersen, "there is no doubt about the exact reproduction of the photograph." photo-graph." , i , struct the picture line for line. An improvement im-provement over the method of simply putting a piece of thin tracing paper over the scale, would be to place the scale and paper over a piece of glass and provide an electric light behind it, which should make the drawing or picture more accurate and visible. It will be at once perceived, of course, that any method of this nature, whether It uses numbered squares or some other scheme, is practically always limited in its accuracy or reproduction of the picture by the size of the squares the smaller the squares or the finer the lines forming the squares shown here for an illustrative example, ex-ample, the more accurate the products will be, and the larger the aquares for a given sixe picture, the cruder the results obtained ob-tained in the reproduction will appear. It is said that the cablegram used in transmitting two of the photographs con st special apparatus for translating the cablegrams and reconstructing the picture pic-ture therefrom, which instrument and . method baa to be employed in photographic photo-graphic dark room. The details of the Andersen system have not been given This Drawing of a Man Showa How Accurately a PWtaro Can Re Constructed, Solely from Black Dot. Hold This Picture at Arm's Length and tha Features of the Man Will Begin to Form; Look at It from a Distance or 8 to 1 Feet, and the Features Appear Fully Developed. tamed 14S and 185 words, respectively. The apparatus is said to be simple and of low first cost and the system worked out by Ander- out yet, but the inventor is frank to say that it is unlike any of the previous systems of transmitting photographs or photo-diagrams based on the employment of numbered or lettered squares such as the Leishman method which has been in use for some time between New York and Denver for transmitting photographs of the latest happenings. ' ; One thing is known with reference to the Andersen system and that is that the original photograph or sketch has first to be accentuated by an artist so as to represent a decided contrast between light and shade. The elements of this nethod, as far as known at present, can be Cleaned further by inspection of Figs. 1, 2 and 3. Fig. 1 ahows the artist's or draftsman's line exit accentuation of the original picture, preparatory prepara-tory to ita transmission by code. Now it becomes an easy matter with a suit- ' ably divided and numbered scale to code such a i picture so that it can be sent by telegrsph, telephone tele-phone or radio in the usual manner, to practically practical-ly any distance dealred. Fig. 2 shows a simple scale which the student of such subjects may like to reconstruct, and this of course should be made of celluloid such as is used in making animated movies. It may be divided by vertical and horizontal hori-zontal linea drawn with India ink and a draftsman's drafts-man's ruling pen in the manner indicated, and the horizontal lines or abscissae lettered A, B, C, while the vertical ordinates may be numbered 1, 2, , 4. When this scale is placed over the line cut or accentuated photograph representing the line cut, it becomes a comparatively simple matter to write a rode message such as that given in the illustration. Fig. 8, whereby a person receiving the code message can, with a small scale and a piece of thin tracing paper placed over it recon- |