The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00040
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
August 29, 2024
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14 THETALKIES of light so that it varied in intensity as it fell on to a small cell of selenium, known by that time to possess light-sensitive qualities. His transmitter was fixed in the window of a room in Washington, and was left in charge of his assistant, Mr. Tainter, while Bell walked over to the building where his receiving mirror and selenium cell was fixed. At last Tainter, unable to contain himself, shouted to the machine: "Mr. Bell, Mr. Bell, if you can hear what I am saying come to the window and wave your hat !" Bell, hearing these words as he picked up the receiving instrument, at once went to the window and was seen by his delighted friend frantically waving his hat with a beaming smile on his face. A small incident in itself, but little less dramatic than the historic moment when Bell called into the first telephone to his assistant: "Come up here. I want you," and waited breathlessly for the welcome sound of eager feet pounding up the stairs. Bell is not alive to see the Talkies, but if there is a place where the inventors of the past are allowed to congregate and murmur to each other, "I told you so," and the question of Talkies crops up, he will be in good company. I must not dally too long, however, over these