While radio fans were tensely listening for voices overseas, the Radio Corporation of America was straining its eyes to see across the Atlantic.
After several days experimenting with a device on which 22 months of labor had been spent, the public was at last permitted to see the results. Photographs were turned into radio impulses, were shot across the sea from Carnarvon (Wales), were picked up in the U. S. and the pictures reproduced.
The device used for the sending was similar to that used last May for transmitting pictures by telephone (TIME, June...
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