Abstract :
“I expect to see and hear by electricity the presidential inauguration in 1929 even though I may be thousands of miles away from Washington,” declares Dr. Gerald Wendt, director of the division of industrial research, Pennsylvania State College. He is foreseeing electrical advances that are sure to be made in the next few years by industrial research. “Single pictures are already being sent across the sea,” he points out. “When a more sensitive photoelectric cell is developed, a picture will be transmitted as rapidly as the movie can flash it on the screen. In Washington during the ceremony, the microphone will have a ‘microscope’ alongside it and I shall be sitting in my own living room seeing and hearing the entire performance as if I were on the spot. Then we shall have radio movies for every home.”
