The Jenkins Picture-Strip Machine
In the transmission of news, market reports, etc., as a continuous process a long strip of paper of typewritten copy is put into this machine, and the blacks and whites of the letters and figures falling on the light sensitive cell open and close a C. W. broadcast or wire circuit; which at distant points is translated back into light and recorded on a long strip of photographic paper.
This can be a continuous process if the sending strip is added too from time to time, and the receiving photographic strip of paper, as it is exposed, passes continuously through a developing, fixing, washing and drying bath. This process might be required by the conditions of service. A white strip and an electric pen may be used instead of photo paper.
In the sending machine the rotating prisms sweep the image of the typewriter line across the light sensitive cell; and the strip is moved longitudinally by winding on a drum.
In the receiving machine the strip is drawn along while it is curved around a rotating cylinder inside which the modulating light is located, turned off and on by radio. A corona glow lamp is preferably employed with the photographic paper.
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