Discussion on “the development of telephotography”

R. J. C. Wood: Isn't the picture as received shown at Fig. 8 (d). I think that is actually what the receiving end gets over the wire and any exercise of imagination, as Mr. Hillebrand says, refers to (f). It would seem to me that these boundaries are determined by the co-ordinates of points along them, all around the boundary. That being so you then get these contour lines as shown on Fig. 8(e). They are filled in with the particular shade according to one of the letters in the code corresponding to that boundary. You then get the Fig. 8 (e) as the final result received at the receiving end. The illustrator knows that nobody looks exactly like (d) and he makes it look a little better, like (8-f). Telephotography means to a photographer taking very far distance scenes with a lens of long focus. Is this term telephotography standard in this sense of transmitting photographs to a distance by wire? The term is already fairly well assigned to the photographic science, and it would seem to me that some such title as photo-transmission or an equivalent would describe the process better than telephotography.