18 FEBRUARY 1928, Page 3

It is only a year and a half since we

published an article describing the struggles of an inventor, Mr. Baird, to convey by wireless agency communications to the eye as they are now conveyed every day to the ear. Immense progress has been made since then, and last week pictures of people moving in a London laboratory were seen instantaneously on a screen in New York. The account given in the Times was not of a perfected invention capable as yet of practical use. But the possibility has been demonstrated and the invention only awaits perfection. It is a small matter that we regret the horrid mongrel Graeco-Latin name—television—attached to the invention. We congratulate the inventor ; otherwise, as laymen, we wonder and keep silence.

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