science · 30 November 1924 · 100 years ago
In 1924, the first photographs sent by radio across the Atlantic as a public demonstration were received in New York. and published next day in the New York Herald Tribune. Pictures of officials were accompanied by a photo of the Oxford team winning in a relay race at Cambridge, a steamship aground on the banks of the Thames, and an image of the written proverb, "One picture is worth a thousand words." (A relay was made on 6 Jul 1924 when a picture of Charles E Hughes, Secretary of State, was transmitted on a circuit beginning at the RCA Laboratories, by wire to New Brunswick, N.J., then radio to Brentwood, England and wire to London. By further wire and radio links, the signal was recorded back at the origin.)
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