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TELEVISION 355
21.58 meters over their experimental station 2XO was used for the face signals, and a wave of 31 meters over station WGY was employed in transmitting the voice. A new television record was established more recently. Images broadcast from station 2XAL, in New York, were received by an amateur in Johannesburg, South Africa. The images received were fairly clear. Production of shortwave television sets on a commercial scale has been announced by the Jenkins Television Company. Silhouettes are now being broadcast by the Jenkins Radio Station in Washington, D. C. Television experiments are being conducted by the laboratories of the large electrical organizations. They will eventually result in a practical and simplified system of sending images accompanied by sound with the same degree of flexibility as that of radio broadcasting.
Many patents have been granted by the United States government to workers in the field of television. This activity would indicate that the final development of the art will result in patent litigation similar to that which characterized the early history of radio.
I believe that my necessarily brief (but not, I hope, otherwise inadequate) statement of the facts should clinch the contentions made earlier in the chapter. Television has a brilliant future but not one which will come in weeks or months. In the years directly ahead sound has no obstacle to intrenching itself solidly with the public. Given such a start, it should devote itself to the kind of product that will hold fast the affections of theatregoers. If it can do that it will survive the first shock of rivalry. Perhaps it will even survive the rival! Perhaps it will form some sort of partnership. Perhaps it will go down in defeat. Perhaps — but that day is not now, for to-day is the day of sound. And much, too, I feel sure, belongs to it of to-morrow.