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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...
Owing to a new invention, the work of M. Belin, it is now possible to send and have delivered an autograph telegram. The sender of a telegram has only to write his message on a revolving cylinder covered with paper. Special ink is used which makes the words appear in slight relief; a delicate needle then strikes the obstacles made by the letters, is jerked upward and interrupts the electric circuit. These interruptions are all recorded at the other end and result in an exact copy of the written telegram. The machine is now being placed in all French telegraph...
Mandolins--F. Van Wicklen '01, F. L. Belin '01S., H. S. Curtiss...
...countries of Europe are authorized to purchase. One set of books is worthy of especial notice. This is a set of seventy small volumes containing selections from the French classics. They have been presented to the library by the large Parisian publishing firm of Veuve Eugene Belin et Fils-a very unusual thing for a foreign or in fact an American publishing house to do. When Professor Cohn was abroad last summer, he visited this publishing house and admired this set of French classics, as they are admirably adapted for work in the less advanced French courses. Hence the gift...