Vision by Radio - Early Television Foundation

letters into dots-and-dashes, and then passing thesethrough the wrist of an operator, as has been thepractice since Morse's fundamental invention of theelectric telegraph, seems to be nearing the end of acycle. Mechanical transmitters with higher speedqualities are becoming stabilized and Americaninvention seems to be making further and rapidprogress in associating photography with radio,which bids fair to revolutionize fundamental methodsof transmission."The message of the future, whether it be written,printed, of mixed with diagrams and photographs,including the signature of the sender, will, it seemscertain, soon be transmitted photographically byradio frequency at a rate tens of times faster thanwas ever possible by the dot-and-dash methods ofhand transmission."Military messages of the future, particularly inactive operations, may contain diagrams andsketches, or even entire sheets of maps, all transmitted as part of the same message and by meansof which detection or listening-in will be reduced toa very low minimum."The author suggests that it might be added thatthe newcomer, the radio photogram, has meritsdistinctly its own, e. g. :(1) It is autographically authentic; (2) it is photographically accurate ; (3) it is potentially very rapid ;(4) it is little effected by static; (5) it is not effectedby storms; and (6) it is automatic and tireless.It can also be used to enlarge the individual newspaper's influence and prestige by the establishment ofphotostat branch printing plants at strategic points,like summer camps, and winter resorts, and atridiculously little cost.Such copies of the news, financial and marketreport pages of the paper could be distributed inthese distant places before they could possiblyappear on the streets of the home city of the paper.32