The talkies (1930)

Page scan 00049 from The talkies

Record Details:

Title:
The talkies
Date:
1930
Publisher:
London: Crosby Lockwood and Son
Volume:
The talkies
Leaf #:
00049
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 23 cure. He tried every conceivable idea which could possibly have any value for his work, and exploited every known method of modulating or shuttering his recording light. He did some valuable work with light "valves," formed of certain liquids, which were known to affect the passage of light through them when they were subjected to varying electrical pressures. He tried, too, to make use of the knowledge that some materials will twist a ray of light under certain electrical conditions, and, quite apart from the fact that the conclusions that he reached were of the utmost value to other experimenters who followed him, he did succeed in producing a very tolerable Talking Picture as soon as he was able to make use of the then newly invented amplifier valve to render his speech and music audible to a large audience. It will be of interest to wireless "fans" to know that he actually made a moving coil loudspeaker many years before it found a more universal use in radio broadcasting. Whitson was no more lucky with the Movie magnates of the day whom he approached with his invention than were other inventors. Not because his machine was defective in any way, but simply and solely because they did not see