Television - the problem of seeing at a distance - how near is it?

Article describing how John Logie Baird transmitted an image of a cross by wireless.

Date: Published in 1924.
Publication: 'The Sphere', 10 May 1924.


This short article tells how the 'problem of seeing by wireless' has been advanced by John Logie Baird's experiments.

It describes how the Scottish inventor achieved 'what may seem fantastic to the non-scientific mind'.

With the article are two black-and-white photographs of the 'radio vision transmitter'. Baird himself appears in one of the pictures.

'The Sphere' described itself as 'an illustrated newspaper for the home'.