Science: Life-Sized Television

"You may be singing in B flat but I'm a mile off." Thus waggishly, but with literal truth, spoke one member of a vaudeville duet team in Schenectady, N. Y., last week.

Truth was that one member was in General Electric laboratories, the other in Proctor's Theatre. On a screen six feet by seven feet the audience saw and heard both members of the team performing their act by telephone and television.

Significance of the occasion was the size of the screen. It was the first demonstration of life-size television. After three years of...

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