News Advocate | 1932-06-09 | Page 2 | Talking with Dirigible over a Beam of Light

talking with dirigible over a beam of light Is evv 0 WES ai tw t t ti v 1 k i aks il 4 john bellamy taylor right consulting engineer of general electric electrics research laboratory talking ln in to the apparatus he developed for sending human speech on a beam of light A program prop am narrow from the navy dirigible los angeles from 2500 feet in the air was wa picked up at a ground elation station as it at the eft left and rebroadcast over a I 1 aaion wide chain of the light beam wae was picked up by a large con ave cave mirror mounted on the tripod where a mall I 1 electric eye converted the light wavea waves into ele elec impulses which were in tum converted into sound by the same means as used in an ordinary radio receiver