72 PHOTO-TELEGRAPHY 



In the normal position of the springs they press 

 against the pins R, S, which are connected in the 

 manner shown to the terminals of the " line." 

 When the synchronising pin comes into contact 

 with the bar the tongues are raised into close 

 contact with the pins P, Q, so that clearly the 

 polarity at the line terminals is reversed. P, Q are 

 the receiving circuit relay pins of the transmitter, 

 while R, S are for the galvanometer circuit. 



Towards the end of the year 1908 Professor Korn 

 installed one of his telautographs at the offices of 

 L' Illustration in Paris, another being at the Lokal 

 Anzeiger offices in Berlin, under the supervision of 

 his colleague, Dr. Glatzel, and a sketch was trans- 

 mitted with considerable success, the subject being 

 that of an aeroplane flight. The subject was 

 topical, and the picture was published the following 

 morning in Le Matin, with an article, descriptive 

 of the event, entitled " Prodigious." And considering 

 the fact that a complicated news picture had been 

 wired some 800 miles in ten minutes, that would 

 have taken several hours to come by train, for 

 the first time in history, the enthusiasm of the 

 Matin was certainly justified. I arrived in Paris 

 the. following morning and saw large crowds 

 of people looking at the photographic print, 

 which was displayed in the way customary with 

 the Matin in their windows facing the Boule- 

 varde. A few days later a telautograph was being 



