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Show TRANSMITTING VISION BY ELECTRICITY. ELEC-TRICITY. "The realization of the process "1 transmitting vision by electricity as one of the useful arta Is but a matter of continued development," declares the March Ptpular Mechanics Magazine Maga-zine In an interesting illustrated article, ar-ticle, which explains the process in detail, it states further: "A few attempts have nlready been Ttmde at sending photographs over the wire, and while the result has not been all that could be wished, has served to demonstrate the practicability practicabil-ity of the process. A vista of wnnJor-ful wnnJor-ful possibilities is opened b tho advances ad-vances made In television and phototelegraphy. photo-telegraphy. And it must be kept In mind that there is a radical difference between the two systems. While tie-vision tie-vision alms to transmit either photographs photo-graphs or living images, the other is ii'tant to send photographs only. "lu Europe a new International figure fi-gure springs luto fame in a day. Simultaneously Sim-ultaneously with the appearance of the news In the dally papers of the United States his photograph is published. The cable which boars the dispatch telling the story may be used to transmit trans-mit tho man s Image, or it may yet come by wireless. "A crime lias been committed. Quick action on the part of the wllco of the entire country is necessary to apprehend appre-hend the perpetrator. Within a few hours his photograph is In the hands t the police of San Francisco as well as New York, and his chances of escape es-cape are small. Just as the great press associations now distribute the news of the world they may furnlsu the dally papers with photographs." |