FIRST TRANSMISSIONS 



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Fallieres was received, and a photograph wired to 

 Berlin from Paris. At Berlin Dr. Glatzel was 

 in charge, the instrument being installed at the 

 office of the Lokal Anzeiger. 



A few days later Professor Korn left for London, 

 leaving M. Chatenet at 

 Paris as operator, and 

 I brought the Daily 

 Mirror instrument 

 with me to London. 

 The Paris and London 

 instruments had been 

 made by J. Carpentier, 

 the well-known scien- 

 tific instrument maker 

 of the Maison Rhum- 

 korff. 



The Paris-London 

 photo-telegraphic ser- 

 vice was inaugurated 

 on November 7th, 

 1907, when Professor 

 Korn received the first 

 photograph from Paris at the Daily Mirror office. 

 Every facility was then and has since been given by the 

 officials of the General Post Office, and much courtesy 

 has been shown throughout by Major O'Meara, Mr. F. 

 Tandy, and other of the chief telephone engineers 

 of this country. The two above officials were 



FIG. 24. One of the first photo- 

 graphs wired by Korn's com- 

 pensated selenium machines. 



