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...light-television apparatus, developed by Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, derives its carrier wave from a high-intensity arc light. The carrier wave is modulated by the Alexanderson scanning device which translates a picture or scene into electricity (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). As with the Taylor system, anyone who has the proper receiving apparatus and can see the Alexanderson beam, can also see what the television apparatus is seeing...
...received birthday greetings from Sir Oliver Lodge, Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, Lee De Forest, John Hays Hammond Jr., Robert Andrews Millikan, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament, Henry Herman Westinghouse, and many another. Their greetings indicate the hope if not the confidence that "in a few months" or "a few years" the flame of Nikola Tesla's genius will weld one more astounding new device for mankind...
...invention to completion. Since then the general principle underlying Nipkow's invention has not been changed. Foremost U. S. workers on television: Herbert Ives, Bell Telephone Laboratories, who demonstrated the practicability of the use of color last year, of two-way television this year; Dr. Ernst F. W. Alexanderson, General Electric, who has worked for the past year in enlarging the size of the image, making it practical for theatre use; C. Francis Jenkins, Jenkins Television Corp., who began public demonstrations last spring in Jersey City; Vladimir Zworkyin, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., who developed a new type of cathode...
...John Logie Baird of London, a Scotsman whose company, Baird Television Corp., has been selling sets to Englishmen for four months, has established branches in many foreign countries (France, Germany, U. S.). Because owners have complained of the small size of televized images, Inventor Baird has, like Dr. Alexanderson of General Electric, spent the past year in enlarging his screen. Last fortnight, he gave a demonstration in the London Coliseum of his life-size images. English television programs are broadcast every...
...television possibilities were publicized by General Electric in conjunction with its report of progress. Example: manless bombing planes equipped with television so that operators in a base camp can watch for an auspicious moment to discharge the plane's load of explosives. To lend substance, Dr. Alexanderson announced his departure for Panama "at the invitation of the Navy ... to study some of the practical conditions for the realization of such ideas...