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high-speed service, and are said to have given excellent results in recent tests. They are built extremely light and designed with a view to reducing wind resistance. The effects of the rail joints on vibration are said to be practically eliminated, and the cars run very smoothly. (Machinery, February 1932.) R. Secret Television. (Popular Science Monthly, March 1932. ) Secret transmission of television images is proposed through a method with which an Eastern firm is experimenting. The image would be distorted optically by lenses at the transmitting end, so that ordinary television receivers in general use would get only a blurred and meaningless picture. But a receiver equipped with the proper lenses of secret curvature would be able to restore the image to its proper shape. In this way, it has been suggested, international conferences might be held privately without the need of any participant leaving his country, and business contracts could be executed with the parties meeting face to face by television. Methods have already been perfected whereby conversation may be " scrambled " for secret transmission. A system of electrical scrambling is now in use in transmitting point to point telephone conversations across the Atlantic ocean. R.
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OFFICERS F O R 1932 President Vice.presidents Secretary Assistant Secretary and Librarian Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Controller
NATHAN HAYWARD HENRY HOWSON C. C. TUTWILER WALTON FORSTALL W. CHATTIN WRTHERILL HOWARD McCLENAHAN ALFRED RIGLING BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MARSHALL S. MORGAN WILLIAM F. JACKSON, JR.
Board of Managers H. B. ALLEN GEORGE H. BENZON, JR. EDWARD G. BUDD FRANCIS W. CHAMBERS G. H. CLAMER WALTON CLARK CYRUS H. K. CURTIS CHARLES H. EWING
SAMUEL S. FELS ARTHUR W. GOODSPEED CLARENCE A, HALL GEORGE A. HOADLEY A. ATWATER KENT L. H. KINNARD ELISHA LEE ROBERT W. LESLEY
LIONEL F. LEVY HORACE P. LIVERSIDGE MALCOLM LLOYD, JR. CHARLES PENROSE GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER JAMES S. ROGERS GEORGE D. ROSENGARTEN HASELTINE SMITH
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high-speed service, and are said to have given excellent results in recent tests. They are built extremely light and designed with a view to reducing wind resistance. The effects of the rail joints on vibration are said to be practically eliminated, and the cars run very smoothly. (Machinery, February 1932.) R. Secret Television. (Popular Science Monthly, March 1932. ) Secret transmission of television images is proposed through a method with which an Eastern firm is experimenting. The image would be distorted optically by lenses at the transmitting end, so that ordinary television receivers in general use would get only a blurred and meaningless picture. But a receiver equipped with the proper lenses of secret curvature would be able to restore the image to its proper shape. In this way, it has been suggested, international conferences might be held privately without the need of any participant leaving his country, and business contracts could be executed with the parties meeting face to face by television. Methods have already been perfected whereby conversation may be " scrambled " for secret transmission. A system of electrical scrambling is now in use in transmitting point to point telephone conversations across the Atlantic ocean. R.
THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OFFICERS F O R 1932 President Vice.presidents Secretary Assistant Secretary and Librarian Treasurer Assistant Treasurer Controller
NATHAN HAYWARD HENRY HOWSON C. C. TUTWILER WALTON FORSTALL W. CHATTIN WRTHERILL HOWARD McCLENAHAN ALFRED RIGLING BENJAMIN FRANKLIN MARSHALL S. MORGAN WILLIAM F. JACKSON, JR.
Board of Managers H. B. ALLEN GEORGE H. BENZON, JR. EDWARD G. BUDD FRANCIS W. CHAMBERS G. H. CLAMER WALTON CLARK CYRUS H. K. CURTIS CHARLES H. EWING
SAMUEL S. FELS ARTHUR W. GOODSPEED CLARENCE A, HALL GEORGE A. HOADLEY A. ATWATER KENT L. H. KINNARD ELISHA LEE ROBERT W. LESLEY
LIONEL F. LEVY HORACE P. LIVERSIDGE MALCOLM LLOYD, JR. CHARLES PENROSE GEORGE WHARTON PEPPER JAMES S. ROGERS GEORGE D. ROSENGARTEN HASELTINE SMITH