INITIAL ACTIVITIES:
The author’s work began with the publication in the Motion Picture News, of October 4, 1913, of an article entitled “Motion Pictures by Wireless.” This contemplated the employment of a flat receiving surface, but in the light of subsequent experience the scheme proposed therein is believed to be impractical. It did, however, provoke discussion of the subject and initiated the work which was thereafter rather continuously prosecuted, except for interruption to aid in the great World War.
After failure to find a practical, workable mechanism made up of devices already in use in applied science, diligent effort was made to discover the necessary, missing part.