Details of exhibit
- Exhibition:
- 1914 Fifty-ninth Annual Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain
- Exhibit title:
- An instrument for communicating colours by telegraph or telephone
- Exhibitor:
- A. E. Bawtree
- Section:
- Scientific and Technical Photographs, &c.
- Exhibit No.:
- 359
- Description:
- Wedges of blue-green, pink and yellow slide under an inspection opening, and their positions and read on scales in letters so chosen that, no matter what the reading, it must always from a pronounceable word according to international telegraph requirements. The instrument was designed as a necessary adjunct to the scientific system of bank note protection shown in exhibit No. 356. but it is likely to prove useful in all industries where colours have to be dealt with. In conjunction with war correspondents' sketches or photographs, communicated by photo-telegraphy, it would enable the central studios of newspapers to work up the pictures in their original colours for reproduction purposes.
- Exhibit type:
- Photographic equipment and supplies
- Process:
- [Not Listed] ()
- Award:
- none
