Broadcasting progress still continues, an amateur using 'a power of % kilo watt has enabled an R. A. F. Wireless Station at Mosul to switch itself on to Daventry and listen to the programme being distributed. It is now claimed that it is possible to. broadcast pictures in the same way that music is broadcasted. Of course the results are crude but the claim seems to be well founded. A. demonstration was given this week. set was installed, Attached was an instrument which resembled ain old-fashioned cylinder phonograph, the usual wax record being replaced by a thin sheet of copper or. which the picture to be transmit ted was engraved. At the other end of the room was an ordinary valve wireless receiving set such as is used for loud speaker work. the loud speaker being replaced by another instrument like a photograph, the place of the wax record in this ease being taken by a sheet of specially prepared sensitised paper. The picture chosen for th demonstration on was one of the King and Queen seated in a carrie age. As soon as the transmitting Instrument was set in motion the wireless waves which it sent out were picked up by the receiving instrument, and its recording point travelled slowly across the sheet of Paper. The resulting picture was imilar to those which appear in newspapers, and the time taken for the transmission was three and a half minutes.
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