|
Bartlane System
The Bartlane system was a wirephoto technique invented in 1920 to transmit digitized newspaper images over submarine cable lines between London and New York. Named after its inventors Harry G. Bartholomew and Maynard D. McFarlane, it was the first digital imaging system ever invented. It was first used to transmit a picture across the Atlantic in 1921. Using the Bartlane system, images could be transmitted across the Atlantic in less than three hours. The images were initially coded with 5 gray levels, but this number was increased to 15 in 1929. At the transmitter, the pattern on the telegraph tapes were made using special printing devices and decoded into the image at the receiver using telegraph printers equipped with appropriate typeface A typeface (or font family) is a design of Letter (alphabet), letters, Numerical digit, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. Most typefaces include variations in size (e.g., 24 point), weight (e.g., ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wirephoto
Wirephoto, telephotography or radiophoto is the sending of photographs by telegraph, telephone or radio. History Technologically and commercially, the wirephoto was the successor to Ernest A. Hummel's ''Telediagraph'' of 1895, which had transmitted electrically scanned shellac-on-foil originals over a dedicated circuit connecting the ''New York Herald'' and the ''Chicago Times Herald'', the ''St. Louis Republic'', the ''Boston Herald'', and the ''Philadelphia Inquirer''. Édouard Belin's Bélinographe of 1913, which scanned using a photocell and transmitted over ordinary phone lines, formed the basis for the Wirephoto service. In Europe, services similar to a wirephoto were called a Belino. The Bartlane system, invented by Harry G. Bartholomew and Maynard D. McFarlane, was a technique invented in 1920 to transmit digitized newspaper images over submarine cable lines between London and New York. and was first used to transmit a picture Transatlantic telegraph cable, across th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
