C. Francis Jenkins Predicts Radio Will Images of Events as They Happen, April 7, 1925

Claim Device Will Give Radio Movies Before Very Long. . . Device Known as “Prismatic Ring” Will Change Attitude Toward Radio by All, the Inventor Declares. . . Sit at Home and See While Hearing. . . Olympic Games, Baseball Games, Flower Festival or Anything Else Will be Seen, It Is Predicted Now

By the Associated Press

Baltimore, April 7—Inventions of a device known as the “prismatic ring” will enable radio fans to see the next Olympic games, as well as hear the cheering, it is predicted in a report by the American Chemical Society in session here today by the inventor, C. Francis Jenkins of Washington, D.C.

He also promises that the stay-at-homes may see the Presidential inauguration ceremonies from their own firesides, see a distant football or baseball game as it is happening, a regatta, Mardi Gras, flower festival or baby parade while these things are actually happening.

Mr. Jenkins explained that still pictures are now excellently done both by radio and by wire, and that as the speed of the apparatus is the only difference between stills and movies, the public is confidently expecting radio movies soon. It is now a daily laboratory demonstration.

The prismatic wring is a new contribution to optical science, the report said, adding:

“By means of this prism a tiny point of light is made to travel across a photographic plate in a succession of parallel and adjacent lines, the strength of the light constantly changing by reason of the varying strength of the incoming radio signals.”

From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, April 7, 1925

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