OCR Text |
Show oo PHOTO TRANSMISSION BY WIRE PROVES SUCCESS NEW YORK, Nov. 15. Tho New York World last night announced the successful transmission today of four Photographs by wire between Its off.it S here and tho office of the St Loujs Dispatch. Two photograph', one of the xaie-iPrtneeton xaie-iPrtneeton football game and the other an airplane view of New York City, were nent from Now oi k to St. Louis and a picture of an Indian ehlef and one of a Mississippi river steamboat were sent from St. Louis to the World loffire The total time oi transmission I for one picture was eight minutes. In the method successfully tested. ih- photographs were plaoed on a cyl" llnder over which passed a needle, at- tached to a sending instrument The vibrations of tho needle, transmitted by electricity, were reproduced In the receiving instrument, which .'ibrated a tiny mirror. The ra of light, reflected re-flected from the mirror played through a. glass screen, graduated from B -uaclty to transparency allowing the light to pass In varying degrees of Intensity In-tensity upon the sensitized plate. |