From the June 27, 1936, issue
By Science News
FACSIMILE TRANSMISSION HAILED AS REVOLUTION
Few happenings in science so aptly illustrate the progress of the last century as do the contrasts between Prof. Samuel F.B. Morse’s telegraph of 1836 and the newest short radio wave facsimile transmission system recently demonstrated between New York and Philadelphia.
While Morse’s telegraph clicked out its historic “What hath God wrought” at a rate of a few score words a minute, the new development of the Radio Corporation of America can transmit messages at a rate of 12,000 words a minute, and in both directions at the same time.