New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 19, 1929, Page 15

STIL PESSIMISTIC OVER TELEVIION Costs Must Be Cut Tremendously to Make It Practical By NEA Service. New York, April 19—Television may be just around the corner, but that corner is quite a long way off if the word of M. B. Sleeper, noted radio engineer of this city, is ac- cepted. Sleeper recently outlined the dif- ficulties facing this new radio art in in issue of QST, the radio amateur's magazine. He pointed out that the A. T. & T., which has been develop- ing a television apparatus, can build a receiver for the work of showing 80od pictures a foot square. “ghe only hitch being thut the cost accounting department has put e of $1,000,000 on these receiv- he adds sardonically. And if that were built and bought 1t would not be the finished product we hope to have when television ac- tually becomes popular. For it would be handicapped by the scanning disc, which is another costly propsition, let alone its mechanical limitations. Sleeper points out that the pres- ent 48-hole scanning disc is much too inadequate for the large repro- ductions of extensive scenes we would expect. To satisfy us the scanning disc would have to have at least 800 holes and drilling holes in scanning discs is another costly scanning disc,” he con- cludes, “must be eliminated. Tt must be replaced by some inexpensive method adapted to high speed pro- duction. Having found this new One of these problems is that of the modulating frequency on which a television scene may be trans- mitted. For a good reproduction, he believ it would have to be a band of about 3500 kilocycles width, as against our present width of 10 kilo- cycles for sound broadcasting. In order to accommodate such a wide band, therefore, it might be best to broadcast television on a frequency of 3,000,000 kilocycles, or one- tenth of a meter, which is another almost impossible feat. This is an extreme opinion of the ditficultics faced by television en- gincers, but it is the serious consid- eration of a highly respected radio engineer. In addition, Sleeper points to the difficulty of synchronization between transmitter and receiver and of distortion at comparatively low frequencies. CAMBODIAN RUINS MUCH LIKE MAYAN Similarities Beond Coincidence, British Seientist Says Honoluly, Aprit 19 (UPy—Resem- blances in the architecture of the old Cambadion civilization and those of the ancient Maya cities of Yuca- tan and Central America are be- yond possible coincidence, in the opinion of Dr. Thomas Gann, of Belize, British Honduras. Dr. Gann, a famous Maya arch- eologist, stopped in Honolulu after visiting many ruins in the far east, on a mission for the London Dally Mail. “I am convinced that travelers from Asia, probably from Indo- China, followed the equatorial cur- rent to Central America some time in the first centuries of the Chris- tian era and left their marks on the Maya civilization,” Dr. Gann said “Probably they touched at the Carolinas on the way, for the mega- lithic ruins there are strikingly similar to those of Tylum in Yuca- tan.” On his present journey Dr. Gann visited the ruins of Angkor in Cam- bodia, Anuradhapure and Polonar- hua in Cevion. nn4 ®rrobudur in Java. The resemblance to Maya cities he found chiefly in Cambodia. Dr. Gann said he would probably be criticized by fellow scientists for his theory, but he cited a num-. ber of cases to substantiate his con- tention, Cambodian Ruins Larger “If you were to stand in the ruins of Angkor,” he said, “you might think you were in a Maya city. The chief difference is that the Cambodian ruins are larger The structures of both are built on immense pyramids, stone-faced. with long stone stairways. The roofs in both cases use the ‘Maya arch’ a cantilever structure with- out a keystone, which limits th~ width of the chambers. Both built immense 6uperstructures of ma- sonry, which gives the buildings their impressiveness. The sculp- tured lintels are much the same, though there is no resemblance to the hieroglyphs. The Maya system of writing was well developed by the time the Asiatic travelers had arrived, and I suppose the Mayas, a conscrvative people, saw no re son to change it. . “Furthermore, both Cambodians and Mayas worshipped the snake. In Cambodia it was the seven-head- ed snake, Naga. In Yucatan it was the plumed serpent, Kukulcan. But the two are carved on the col- umns in the same position, with head erect, tongue protruding, and tail erect at the top of the pillars. “In Borobudur, Java, 1 saw a earved Buddha on a wall, sitting on a throne supported by lions. On one side is a suppliant bearing lo- tus, on the other a suppliant bear- ing incenses. “A figure which corresponds to this in al: essential pictures may be seen on the sculptures of the Maya later empire Yucatan.” ENOUGH 15 ENOUGH ctoria, Tex. M—Ed Klein built a concrete swimming pool. Two months later lightning struck the pool, splitting it in ‘wo. Klein has rebuilt the basin and this time has covered it with & fire insurance pol- fcye i evening, when a machine owned FOUR SUITS FOR $2,300 RESULT OF AUTO CRASH Salvatore Urso B d for Injuries Suffered by Plaintifis on Burritt Street. “our separate actions aggregaling 00 were brought today inst Salvatore Urso by Konstanty and | Frank Fedorowicz and John Kraw | czyk and Pater Zapatka by his moth- er, Mary Zapatka, thro Attor- ney M. F. Stempien, claiming dam- ages for personal injuries and pro- perty damage resulting from an au- tomobile accident. According to the complaint, Frank Fedorowicz was driving a car owned by Konstanty on May 1928, with John Krawczyk and Peter Zaputka as passenger. He was proceeding in | a southerly direction on Burnitt strect, at about 10 o'clock in the fiv the e operated by the defendant canie from the opposite direction diagonal ly and crashed into the car occupicd [ by the plaintiffs, it is claimed. As a result of the ident, which, ac- cording to allegations, was ¢ d by sheer negligence on the part of the defendant to keep a proper lookout for other machines and failure 1o travel at a reasonable rate, the U plaintif’s car was damuged consid- crably, while the pa Bers receiv- ed various injuries. It is further stated that all plain- tiffs were taken immediately 10 the Rospital where examination revealed | contusion of the brain and injury to the nose, face, legs and body of Frank Fedorowicz, some of whicn proved permanen contusions abrasions on the face, legs and body of John Krawezyk, und injury to tne legs and Lody of Peter Zapatka. T'h plaintiff Konstanty Fedorowiez claims $800 damages for injury to his car, while the injured pu claim $500 each. 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