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...Philadelphia by radio and has sent wireless motion pictures from one room to the next. His achievement has the honor of priority, since he was sending both radio and wire pictures two years ago. His apparatus employs optical means, impressing the photographs point by point upon a light-sensitive cell. This cell changes the light and shade variations into telephone or radio current waves. His device differs from the Belin and from the Telephone Company machines...
...device known as a synchronizer, the cylinders at both ends are started simultaneously and turned at the same rate of speed. The light beam travels in a continuous line over the picture, until it reaches the opposite side. In the center of the cylinder is a "photoelectric cell," consisting of a rod of potassium in a vacuum tube. It is so sensitive to light that any ray falling on it causes the electrons to fly from its surface, generating an electric current. As the cylinder revolves, the point of light passes through the transparent film and falls upon the potassium...
Using a selenium cell, which is photo-electric (i.e., when sensitized by light rays, it gives off an electric current), French engineers of the military wireless service, General Gustave Ferie, M. Jouaust and Major Mesny, amplified waves from Capella, the blue star of the first magnitude in the constellation Auriga, into audible sound waves. The transformation was effected by a bulb of four electrodes, with much higher potential than the audion bulbs commonly used in wireless. The star is 71 light years (over 400 trillion miles) from the earth. The sounds were audible over a telephone to a considerable distance...
...Because I parked my car in the outskirts of Washington in a place where parking is forbidden by law, I was arrested by the Virginia Highway Police, was refused permission to telephone my aged mother and some of my colleagues, was obliged to spend 15 hours in a crowded cell, was compelled to furnish a bond of $5,000. Said I, on being released: 'I am the innocent victim of a terrible mistake; I shall not rest until I receive a complete vindication...
...outer skin. Every year the interior gasbags have to be removed. Between renewals both the inner and outer fabric system have to be constantly repaired. The Airship Construction Co. of Detroit, said to be backed by Edsel Ford, is experimenting with a new form of covering and interior cell, to be built entirely of very thin sheet duralumin, not more than one one-hundredth of an inch in thickness...