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Significance of the occasion was the size of the screen. It was the first demonstration of life-size television. After three years of work Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson, G. E. researcher, had developed his images from postage stamp size to a scale where the theatre owners deemed it suitable for inclusion in their regular show program...
...Alexanderson a television pioneer, predicts only a few of the feasible inventions when he suggests "wars of the future when the staff officer can see the enemy through the television eye of his scouting planes, or can send a bombing plane without a man on board which can see the target and be steered by radio to its objective." The science of war will undoubtedly be remade, while ordinary conditions of living, especially in connection with entertainment, should experience great changes...
...film picture, and the image had an occasional tendency to rock from side to side, all shades of the photograph were present, and the sound synchronism was perfect. Perfection of this science is no thing of the distant future, as is shown by the fact that Dr. Alexanderson is soon to study practical conditions for the realization of some of his ideas at the invitation of the Navy...
...Young, internationally-minded Board Chairman of General Electric Co., is waiting hopefully. He has been talking about the possibility ever since 1923. Last week came some fulfillment. Mr. Young's oldest son, Charles, works in the General Electric Research Laboratories at Schenectady under famed Dr. Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson. He has invented a new type automatic carbon recorder for use in conjunction with Dr. Alexanderson's radio television inventions. Last week Charles Young & colleagues stood by at Schenectady and watched a facsimile front page of the San Francisco Call-Bulletin appear before their eyes, blurred but fairly legible...
...resolved to organize a potent U. S. wireless company which would enable U. S. wireless to compete on equal terms with British wireless, and be a customer for the Alexanderson alternator. General Electric bought out the British Marconi company's interest in American Marconi, organized Radio Corp. of America to take over the business of American Marconi, which thereupon became defunct. Associated with General Electric were American Telephone & Telegraph, United Fruit Co., and Westinghouse Electric, of which only Westinghouse remains an important factor. Thus U. S. wireless became strong and vigorous, developed a three-second trans-Atlantic service, carried...