Word: telephotoed
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...flock together at this year's first meeting of the Harvard Ornithology Club in the Upper Common Room of Adams House on Friday evening, October 4, at 7.30 o'clock. Frederick A. Saunders, professor of Physics, will show moving pictures of birds which he took with his own peculiar telephoto arrangement...
More astonishing is a device for wire transmission of news pictures, which may be Publisher Hearst's answer to the Associated Press's Wirephoto (TIME, April 29). The Hearst invention is portable, requires no leased wires, can be hooked up to any telephone. It resembles a conventional telephoto set in employing a tiny beam of light and photo-electric cell to scan the photograph. But the light impulses are converted into a shrill whistling sound. An ordinary telephone transmitter is clamped in place to catch the sound. At the receiving end of the telephone wire the waves...
Last May Publisher Agnelli opened La Stampa's new 19,000,000-lire ($1,600,000) building, a model plant with the latest presses, telephoto receiving apparatus and even television rooms. Last month he plunged far ahead of his competitors with a venture unheard of in the U. S. He supplied each of La Stampa's foreign bureaus with portable wireless sets to flash photographs to the Turin plant...
...principle the A. P.'s new service, designed by American Telephone & Telegraph, is what the world has long known as Telephoto. But A. T. & T., which developed Telephoto at a cost of $2,800,000 only to junk it for lack of patronage, has applied to Wirephoto a new technique* whereby it can transmit a picture so perfectly that the result is almost as good as the original. And instead of eight scattered Telephoto stations, often far from the news, Wirephoto has 24 to start with, any of which can send and receive pictures with all others...
...last week's set to over newsphoto supremacy in the pages of Editor & Publisher was generally considered only a mild prelude to the cut-throat battle ahead, if and when AP's telephoto service opens fire...