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are apt to ignore or disbelieve things with which 

 they are not personally intimate, and the opinion, 

 I know, prevailed at one time that many of the 

 telegraphed pictures were greatly retouched or 

 " faked " before they were printed in the paper. 

 Let me say here, therefore, once for all, that tele- 

 graphed pictures have, of necessity, less retouching 

 than the ordinary photographs, and unless they 

 arrive over the wire tolerably good in quality they 

 are absolutely useless. The idea that the results 

 were faked arose from mere ignorance of the vital 

 conditions under which commercial photo -tele- 

 graphy is possible. 



The selenium machines were kept running at 

 Manchester and Paris until Professor Korn had 

 completed tests between Berlin and Paris with his 

 telautograph. They served a useful purpose, as 

 they inaugurated a new branch of electrical science 

 which is destined to play an important part in 

 modern illustrated journalism. An instance of the 

 criminalistic possibilities of photo-telegraphy was 

 shown in 1908, when a man named Hedemann, 

 whose photograph was telegraphed from Paris to 

 London and published in the Daily Mirror, was 

 recognised by someone in London who knew him 

 and gave important information to the police. 



Professor Korn is at present endeavouring to 

 render more satisfactory his compensation of the 

 lag in the selenium cell, and eventually to prepare 



