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Show PICTURE SENT OVER WIS BY OGDEN IHTOR Demonstration that the Leishman picture transmission machines, owned and operated by the L. J. Leishman company of Ogden, are a success was given on Saturday afternoon, when pictures were sent over a telegraph wire extending from the office of W. E. Zuppann, 806 Eccles building, to the Leishman company laboratory, 404 Eccles building. The demonstration was witnessed by about 100 people who were much Interested in the unique mechanism invented by L. J. Leishman for tho sending of pictures, drawings, charts, writings and other messages. The picture messages were placed on a transmission machine in the Zuppann Zup-pann advertising office, a smoke-covered paper was slipped onto a cylinder cylin-der of a similar machine in the Leishman Leish-man laboratory, two telegraphic "dots" sent over the telegraphic wire between the two offices and then the machines started. LcRoy J. Leish- &tS!MH9BHBif3 Miss Delia Tracy. man, the inventor, handled the receiving receiv-ing machine, and his brother, Douglas Doug-las Leishman, did the sending. Within about five minutes, the transmission trans-mission of the picture had been completed com-pleted and it was removed from the receiving instrument, sprayed wth a chemical solution and placed on display, dis-play, much to the wonder of the people peo-ple who had been Invited to the demonstration. dem-onstration. Several other pictures, besides that of Miss Tracy, were sent as telegrams. For about 45 minutes there was "wire trouble," which Impeded the workings of the machines, one of the wires having hav-ing become disconnected. This was sneedilv remedied. The Inventor decided this morning to allow the publication of the picture of Miss Tracy as sent over the wiro and tho cut published today was made by the Ogden Engraving company In even less than the usual time necessary neces-sary for making newspaper half-tones. "Several modifications and betterments better-ments will be made in the picture transmission machines," said LeRoy J. Leishman this morning. "The betterments bet-terments have been tested in tho laboratory, lab-oratory, but have not yet been used on the machines. As a result, future pictures will bo even better than those that have been sent. "It might be Interesting to note from the time records already established estab-lished that the entire time necessary from the minute the original photograph photo-graph is taken until it is received, in cut form, In a newspaper office will not be ovor two and a half hours, with only six minutes of that time devoted de-voted to actual transmission. In other oth-er words, a picture taken in New York City at 12 o'clock noon could be prepared and sent over the Leishman machines and received in Ogden, ready for publication, at 12.30 o'clock p. in." on |