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Show (Machines That Are 1 Almost Human p liBy E. C. TAYLO rL3 The Telehor TITE telehor, a robot similar to the television machine, gets pictures at places where human being cannot live, such as at the bottom of the ocean or high up In the air. The robot picks up the picture at the sea door or In the thin air of high altitudes and transmits it by radio to a receiving machine that translates the electric waves Into a photograph. The robot is lowered Into the ocean, and sent aloft in a balloon. It Is directed di-rected by men on the ground, and when it is pointed at the object to be photographed, starts sending Its flashes of vibrations that are recorded like the Image of a television broadcaster broad-caster is recorded on the television receiving re-ceiving set. The mechanism of the robot transmits trans-mits the pictures direct from the object ob-ject being photographed without the necessity of making preliminary exposures. ex-posures. It sends the electric impulses of the picture one at a time, and they are picked up by the receiving apparatus ap-paratus and flashed before a camera. A complete picture can be sent in one-eighth of a second. Equally as remarkable In the eyes of most people Is the robot that sends photographs by telegraph and by radio. ra-dio. The sending of pictures by telegraph tele-graph Is universally done nowadays. When a great news event occurs In a far distant country, or In a part of the United States far from home, photographs pho-tographs of it are sent in a few minutes min-utes to the newspapers that we read. Pictures of the Inauguration of a new President of the United States in Washington are printed within an hour in newspapers on the Pacific coast. When there Is a great earthquake or other disaster In Europe or Asia, these robots send the pictures to American Amer-ican newspaper by cable. This Is a companion device to the radio for the speedy dissemination of news to the people of the world. This sending of pictures by wire Is becoming an important factor in business. busi-ness. An engineering firm in New York city recently sent a set of complicated com-plicated mechanical drawings to San Francisco. They arrived in time to enable the firm to complete a contract several days ahead of the specified time, and thereby made considerable profit for the firm. The latest fashions are sent by wire now. Important financial announcements announce-ments are transmitted just as thej have been set up in type at the home office to prevent error in resetting the type where they are received. Physicians send photographs of patients pa-tients showing conditions that need Immediate diagnosis. Facsimiles of checks have transferred large sums of money In a few minutes when they have been transmitted by wire. The robot frequently goes to the aid of the police in catching criminals. Photographs and even fingerprints have been sent to distant cities to aid in the hunt for criminals. This robot sends- out electrical vibrations vi-brations one at a time. They are received re-ceived by a device attached to a writing writ-ing pen that draws a line as each impulse im-pulse is received. The pitch of the vibration of each impulse makes the line light or heavy. These lines are drawn very rapidly, and when the entire en-tire operation is completed in a few minutes, there is a picture that, when photographed on a smaller scale, is a clear copy of the original picture. The same device is frequently used to transmit photographs by radio, sending the electrical impulses through the air Instead of over wires. But the wires so far have been found to give greater accuracy In reception. A movie camera operated on a similar sim-ilar principle Is being used by the United States coast and geodetic survey sur-vey to take pictures of tides and water wa-ter currents beneath the surface. It does the work of several men, and does it accurately. The device recently was submerged In Chesapeake bay to make studies of the tidal currents. It contained a compass com-pass and a revolving dial, on which the direction and strength of the currents cur-rents were recorded. One picture was made each half hour and the machlna worked steadily and without attention for a week at the bottom of Chesapeake Chesa-peake bay. Careful analysis of the charts recorded aided In the planning of a sewage disposal plant. ((21. 19S1, Western Newspaper Union. 1 |