RADIO TELEVISION WILL COME SAYS R. F. FIELDS

"I doubt if radio will supersede wire transmission in the field of television in the immediate future, but it is an extension bound to come." was the statement made by R. F. Fields, Assistant Professor of Applied physics in the radio laboratory of the Engineering School to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "When it does come, however. I believe that it will have a distinct commercial possibility."

Assistant professor Fields made it clear that television is not a new invention. There has been much activity in this field in recent months. The recent transmission of photographs of the moving figures of such notables as Herbert Hoover from Washington to New York is evidence of this fact. There is a great distinction, however, between such a transmission over wires and one over the radio, as was first completed from London to a town near New York. It is true these images were crude and rather imperfect but images none the less. The shifting shapes of first a man and later a women demonstrated that transatlantic television to a reality.