Professor A M Low Pioneer electronics expert (notably of radio-controlled flight), President of
the British Interplanetary Society (1936- ), author and science fiction
novelist, putative pioneer of television invention.
There may come a time when we shall have 'smellyvision' and tastyvision'. When
we are able to broadcast so that all the senses are catered for, we shall live
in a world which no one has yet dreamt about.' • quoted in 'Radio Mirror' in Daily News, 30 December1926
A Dr Low was reported by the Daily News to have invented a distance
viewing system called Televista in 1904. It is believed to be the same. An
eyewitness report of seeing a crude picture transmitted from one room to another
early in 1914 in a demonstration by Professor A M Low is given by A C Armstrong
AIMechE in Television Viewers' Handbook (London: English Universities
Press, 1954).
