wirephoto

The first wirephoto systems were slow and did not reproduce well.

In Europe, services similar to a wirephoto were called a Belino.

Imagine it is composed of a set of fine dots like a newspaper wirephoto.

In 1921, the wirephoto made it possible to transmit pictures almost as quickly as news itself could travel.

In the 1930s, wirephoto machines of any reasonable speed were very large and expensive and required a dedicated phone line.

In the mid-1930s a technology battle began for less expensive portable wirephoto equipment that could transmit photos over standard phone lines.

Wirephoto or telephotography is the sending of pictures by telegraph or telephone.

The wirephoto, was introduced in the US by Associated Press in 1935.

Transmission credit is to Associated Press Wirephoto.

This game marked the first time a wirephoto, known at the time as a "telepix", was transmitted of a bowl game.

In 1935, AP launched the Wirephoto network, which allowed transmission of news photographs over leased private telephone lines on the day they were taken.

His first phone call, from the AP wirephoto office to the news office, led to one of the first bulletins sent to the world:

It was on his initiative two months earlier that The Times had inaugurated its wirephoto service, transmitting photographs over ordinary telephone lines, a direct ancestor of today's fax technology.

Édouard Belin's Belinograph of 1913, scanned using a photocell and transmitted over ordinary phone lines, formed the basis for the AT&T Wirephoto service.

The first wirephoto, of survivors of a dirigible explosion off San Francisco, amazed readers and competitors, who wondered how The Times got the picture across the country in hours.

Later a totally portable wirephoto copier and transmitter was put into use by International News Photos, which could be carried anywhere and needed only a standard long distance phone line.

The Chicago Daily News September 8, 1945 printed prominently two photographs credited 'Associated Press Wirephoto' showing one American foreign correspondent amidst an obliterated surrounding former city.

The 19-year-old began his career by doing odd jobs and writing the occasional sports story; by 1940, he had demonstrated an aptitude for photography and was assigned to work in the wirephoto office.

After the telephone joined the telegraph as a vehicle for rapid communication, French inventor Édouard Belin developed the Belinograph, or Wirephoto, to transmit photos by telephone.

During his term as editor and publisher, the Tribune became the first Nebraska newspaper outside of the Lincoln-Omaha area to use wirephoto, and the only one to use three wire services.

The pictures were from Wide World Wirephoto, a Times news service of that time, for which Mr. Cooley designed and built photo-facsimile equipment for the transmission of news photographs.

United Press had no direct wirephoto service until 1952, when it absorbed co-owned Acme Newsphotos, under pressure from parent company Scripps to better compete with AP's news and photo services.

He enclosed an early citation in print of a 1984 A.P. Laserphoto (formerly wirephoto) of a bunch of executives marching with briefcases, beneath the title " Suits in Step."

Finally one day he noticed a front page story in the Times, complete with AP wirephoto, about a Buddhist monk in Viet Nam who had set himself on fire to protest government policies.

Died: William Carlos Williams, 79, American poet, of a stroke; and Édouard Belin, 86, French inventor of the wirephoto process that allowed photographs to be transmitted to newspapers for reprinting.