The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-12-10
BOUT SUBMARINE TELEPHONY
Isons Son and His Partner Will Soon Say ''f1eilo,
Paris Central

brt on mn occasion has the invention failed
to meet every requirement. NatuI any such
successful tests have made the TWO YOUNG
inventors very confident that ialIufe Is
impossible.
Several wears ago the senior Edison took
,p the subject of submarine telephony, put
finally discarded it because it presented tco
many obstacles To his mind the opy
means of conveying telephone messag
across the ocean successfully would be py
the erection of relay stations every one
hundred miles To do this would be so ex
pensive that the cost would render Inc
scheme almost impracticable
Another inventor who has attemplea "
master this problem Is Nikola Iesia' ~
made a careful study of the que ZION an
AZ last dismissed it with the opinion ma
successful transatlantic telephony would
not be possible until the problem OF tei-
ephoning without wires had been solVeu
Tesla found that the chisf difficulty ID N
way of submarine telephony ID TO- i'e
In the static capacity Of the caoie' pit
was due to the fact that the eiecHllc
VIBRATIONS were too easily distortsd pS lhe
waves. He explained this by mean a
cabl, to a big reservoir thfclgh Wn'1n
small disturbances must be trarsniti e.
/ The reservoir would take UP the u,o-
ance produced at one end and wcuia :
tempt TO carry them to the other end pat
very little OF the original disturbance
/ would stiIl exist when the end OF the me
| was reached.
In making his experiments Tesla sue
| ,eeded In conveying a sound from the voice
through 1000 miles OF wire. but the souhu
was little more than confused NOSE gu
tirely undistingulshable as 10 is ihean,hs
and he explained this by tha theory tna,
the electric vibrations had been o'StOrte'
by the waves , ,re
confident that they have overcoms tnes'
difficulties. BY certain ARRANGEMENT "
tha wires they have done away with N
wave action that troubled M. Tesla an
according TO their present plans. tneTe W.,
be one relay station between TINS cpun,
and England. This will be located hl'a
way In the ocean and from that point ~
message will be resent by hah'ea
device. In measure this device WIZ y
semble a megaphone ana Ut VIII 40
were, expand the sound.
. In speaking of the new Invention 10 you
, correspondent, Mr.. Edison said:
"Telephoning across the sea Is boann !
come. There is absolutely no reason WI
, n should not be done and the cost could
made much cheaper than telegraphy.
do not mean to say that We have periecte
, the invention TO such degree mar ~
, system can be operated az perieSps
: upon land That Is impossible at presen
: and 1t may be some time pe'ore IL oah
! done but our experiments have prove
|, tbat n viii be done eventually.
zone feature that we shall certainly nav
J perfected. however, will be The receive
: This is the most important part OF the en-
4 tire mechanism and We have spent gres
: deal OF time over 1t. We intend that
q shall be as delicate as possible. Il Wilt
: extremely large and will be SO finely ae
a iusted that 1t will receive every impres
Il sion. have devoted mucn time 70 ~
adjustment, for realize how difficult