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Mountain) in German Bavaria near the Austrian border.
FIRST SHOWING IN 1928
Television Invented? No,
It Just Happened to Grow
By LEO TURNER
New York, Oct. 4 U.R) Television never was invented, it Just
grew, one of its pioneers said today.
An old, yellowed newspaper clipping shows that the first
public demonstration of the transmission of human images
through the air was on Aug. 22, 1928.
It was transmitted from a
radio station at Coytesville, N. J
that was licensed to a fellow
named Herbert C. Hoover, who
was then secretary of commerce
That was the year that the
present small-sized dollar bills
replaced the old, blanket-sized
greenbacks. Remember? A dol
lar went a long way then.
That was the year that Leon
Trotsky was exiled from White
Russia, the Graf Zeppelin crossed
the Atlantic, and Mr. Hoover
was elected president.
Several hundred scientists
gathered at a hall in New York
university's upper Manhattan
campus and squinted into some
three-quarter-by-three - quarter
inch screens and watched the
faces of the people who were
speaking on the other end.
The first human faces to be
transmitted through the air in
that public demonstration of
television were those of Hugo
Gernsback, now publisher of a
radio magazine, and John Gelos
co. chief engineer of the old
Pilot Electric Co., formerly of
Lawrence, Mass. Gelasco is now
head of an electronics company
at Milan, Italy. They were fol
lowed by several radio enter
tainers.
"The received image was of
iufficient definition to enable
observers to see the woman's
features distinctly," the old
newspaper clipping reported.
"The animated image did not
stay in one place but continually
shifted in one direction."
"That was because one of the
motors was running faster than
the other," Isadore Goldberg.
president of the Pilot Radio
Corp., who built the television
et used in that demonstration,
said today.
Goldberg is a laughing, roly-
poly, cigar chain smoker, who
entered the budding "wireless"
business when he finished tech
nical school in 1908. He was 16
then.
He began by manufacturing
cats-whiskers and slide tuners for
crystal radio sets. Remember?
He grew up with the business.
Now he talks more about his
Ayreshlre dairy farm than he
does about radios. He equipped
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a flying laboratory in 1930 and
loaned it to the government for
two-way radio experimentation.
"Television never was in
vented like the telephone was,"
he said. "It just grew. And a
lot of people grew with it."
"The first transmission was
with the old Nipkow disc, which
was a three-foot revolving disc
with 116 inch perforations. I
got four photo-electric cells from
the University of Chicago for
the first sets. That's the only
place you could get them.
"The industry has worked on
television ever since. I began
regular daily television trans
mission from Brooklyn in 1929.
The greatest advance was the
invention of the present tele
vision tube by Vladimir K. Zwor
kyn of RCA about 14 or 15 years
ago. The Kenescope tube was
to television what the early tube
was to radio. It took it out of
the dot and dash age."
What is the next step in tele
vision? "Color," Goldberg said.
"Our greatest handicap at the
present time is a confused pub
lic. No wonder they're confused."
One Fatality in
Seattle Blast
Seattle, Oct 4 lU.R)Hot oil
and scalding water from an ex
ploding boiler claimed the life
today of one of IS workmen in
jured in the blast that rocked
the nine-story Sears Roebuck
and company mail order build
ing yesterday.
Hudson Jordan Jr., 35, an em
ploye of the University Plumb
ing and Heating company, died
in Providence hospital from sec
ond and third degree burns, at
tendants reported. Still on the
serious list was Dave Dunbabin,
50, also a steamfitter for the
same company.
The other 13 injured were
treated for slight burns, cuts,
bruises and shock and released.
Fire Chief William Fitzger
ald said the explosion was caus
ed when fuel oil fumes in the
boiler box were ignited by a
torch as a fireman tried to
start up the recently installed
boiler.
LOVE WILL RULE
T Man of S.F. lo
Meet Salem Group
A special meeting of the build
ing committee of the Salem
YMCA has been called for
Thursday of this week when
John Vandis, head of the build
ing bureau of the Y of San Fran
cisco, will be here. The com
mittee, headed by Robert L. Elf
strom, will meet with Vandis at
3 o'clock Thursday and discuss
with him proposals for expand
ing the plant of the Y.
The Salem YMCA some time
ago purchased a lot immediately
to the north of the present plant
with frontage on Cottage street.
It is this property on which
building operations are contem
plated. No date has been fixed
for the beginning of a fund
raising campaign although the
proposed expansion program
may be inaugurated next year.
Old Dobbin Wasn't So Safe 1
Girl Falls in Love With Man
Serving Time in San Quentin
By ALLEN HOFFMAN
Umtrd PrM Smft CorrMpondrntt
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 4 u.Ri A girl can fall in love with a man
even when hes' a prisoner in California's San Quentin prison,
Peggy Petersen said today.
It didn't make a bit of difference she has never known William
Sansbury except as a convicted burglar and forger in prisoner's
fiarb. she said.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ort., Tuesday, October 4, 194915
"start living a normal life
again." Meanwhile, she'i on
"pins and needles."
"I'm positive we'll b. haoDV
and that Bill won't get into any
irouoie again. '
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Sansbury and Mist Petersen.
22. met in the office of San
Quentin prison where she was
a receptionist. He was serving
a 21 -month sentence for bur
glary. When authorities transferred
him from San Quentin to the
city jail in Baltimore, she cared
enough to quit her Job and fol
low him.
She visits him every day, and
wants the world to know that
"Bill won't get into trouble
again."
She is waiting for a parole
board to decide what to do with
Sansbury who faces old charges
of forgery. She hopes the state
of Maryland will set him free
and allow them to marry.
At his hearing before Judge
Robert France, Miss Petersen of
fered her savings up to $200 to
help make restitution for the
forgeries. She promised she and
her sweetheart would pay the
remaining $700 as soon as they
could after he Is freed.
Judge France took the case
under advisement to study the
Maryland and California parole
board reports.
She can't remember the first
time she met Sansbury or first
realized that she was in love
with him.
"It just came about slowly, I
guess." she said. "We used to
see each other in the same of
fice at San Quentin almost every
day because he was an inmate
clerk in the same office where
I worked as a receptionist and
typist."
Although her parents objected,
Peggy quit her job and came
east to be with Sansbury when
he was transferred. She got a
job at a Baltimore rug company
owned by a nephew of the psy
chiatrist for whom she worked
at San Quentin.
"Bill gets discouraged once in
a while," she said, "but you
can't blame him. I guess 'any
body would."
She said he "isn't quite sure'
what he will do when he gets
his release.
"He used to be a clothing
salesman," she said, "so he mav
go back to that. We'll work
something out somehow."
She t a i d everything was
bound to be all right once they
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