Uintah Basin Record | 1932-06-24 | Page 4 | Talking with Dirigible over a Beam of Light

Talking With Dirigible hone Over a Beam of o Light i w or t v a 1 a ai r i 4 j 1 4 r 1 I tir t d f 1 Tt O v W John Jolin Bellamy Taylor right consulting engineer of General Electrics Electric's laboratory talking Into In to the apparatus he developed for sen sending ing human speech on nn a n beam of ot li light ht A program from the dirigible Los Angeles from 2500 feet in the air airas was as picked up at a ground station as at nt the left and und rebroadcast over a n wide nation chain of stations The Ii light ht brain was picked up by a n large concave concave con cave mirror mounted on the tripod where a 0 electric rye oyo converted the light lIht waves WO Into electrical elec Impulses which were In turn converted cOD Into sound h by the Hie same sune means f as os used In an on ordinary I radio r receiver ce er u