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...months ago Edouard Belin, French inventor, completed an invention for transmitting photographs by wire (TIME, April 7). Last week the Radio Corporation of America sent a photograph by wireless from New York to Warsaw, Poland, and back again-9,000 miles. It was a picture of Major General James G. Harbord, President of the Corporation, and the reproduction was perfect. The picture was not reproduced in Warsaw because the requisite machinery is not yet installed there. The inventor is E. F. W. Alexanderson, radio innovator. Each variation of light and shade in a photograph is translated into punctures of ticker...
...general's face. It traveled 9,000 wireless miles without damage...
...Wireless telephones between Britain and the United States within a year is a probability," said Godfrey C. Isaacs, managing director of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. Continuing: "As soon as we've settled the question of licenses with the British Government, we intend to erect a high power station in this country, while the Radio Corporation [of America] builds one in New York...
Even though the wireless and the mail service are popularly supposed to bring all the world within a penny's reach of everybody, conditions at present in the Philippines are hardly more clear and definite to most Americans than those in Western Europe. That much rebellious unrest exists there is certain. If the Filipino has read his appear he should have found valuable precedents i Ireland India, Spain and Germany, and even Oklahoma. Perhaps armed and noisy brawls are contagious; and having become fevered there with, the people have taken General Wood as a good broad mark at which...
...Cherbourg the Majestic, Minnedosa, Empress of Britain were obliged to heave to outside the roadstead for 24 hours. The Dover-Calais and Folkestone-Boulogne Channel services were held up for a day. The wireless installation at L'orient, Brittany, was smashed to pieces and two gargoyles of the famous Gothic courthouse at Rouen were torn off by the wind and hurled to the street...