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Pictures By Radio Mark Centennial Of The Telegraph

Reel Number: 250008-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1936

Country: USA

Location: New York City,NYC Philadelphia,Pennsylvania

TC Begins: 15:09:47

TC Ends: 15:10:49

Duration: 00:01:02

1936 - Telegraph Transmits Pictures / Fax Men looking at wooden device / model w/ teeth moving metal acting as key. 15:10:06 Man at machine w/ label Original Morse Telegraph. CU activated need on paper strip. CU paper of ink. 15:10:23 Man loading RCA telegram w/ picture onto cylinder, spinning. CU hands taking reproduced picture out of printing machine / printer. Two pictures compared. Facsimile Machine; Transmission; Reproductions; Communications; Inventions; Electronic Duplication; NOTE: On 11Jun36 RCA demonstrated an experimental facsimile circuit between New York & Philadelphia using ultrashort waves, per The Story of Communications by George P. Oslin.

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