The talkies (1930)

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00043
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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THE TALKIES 17 electric currents, which are transmitted to the place where it is desired to reproduce them, and there converted into sound vibrations by a suitable vibrating medium. What more astounding story could be told? What greater tragedy than that Lauste, financially ruined and broken in health, allowed his patents to lapse? In the absence of the thermionic valve, Lauste tried every conceivable means, from singing flames to compressed air, to overcome the difficulty of amplifying his reproduced sounds. After vainly seeking financial support in this country and Europe, he went to America, where he made an effort to interest capitalists in his Talking Picture device, but his plans were thrown into chaos by America's entrance into the War, and he made no progress for some years. Disappointment had by this time broken his health, but he never lost faith in his invention, and in 1923 he entered into an agreement with someone in New York to finance the device. The best, however, that this financier could do was, to use Mr. Lauste's own words, "to string him along until 1926," when he again fell ill. It was during this illness that his financial agent persuaded him to move his machinery and instruments to more convenient premises. Later, however, the man disappeared, and Mr.