In his Connecticut farmhouse, Inventor Arthur S. Ford, a comfortably built man with a generous mustache, played with a paintbrush and window screen. Filling up the wire squares with paint, plotting the outlines of trees, barn and sheep, he made a picture.... From this pastoral beginning he has evolved "telegravure," an invention hailed last week by Editor & Publisher (journalistic trade weekly) as "amazing." By its virtue, newspaper pictures can be transmitted in a simple code of numbers and letters and composed like any other text on a linotype. Telegravure is...
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