El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-17
HELLO, PARIS CENTRAL"
Submarine Telephony Said to Have
Been Perfected by Edison's Son
and His Partner.

Ii the dream of inventors to be real
lied at last? asks the Philadelphia
Inquirer. Have the obstacles that
have prevented successful submarine
telephony been finally overcome and
will the year that u5hers in the new
century be made memorable by the
| Introduction of an invention that will
enable US to talk with our friends in
London, or Paris, or St. Petersburg?
| The two inventors who ask US to &C
cept this predic tiOn as unsdulterated
fact are Thomas A. Edison. Jr., and
| William Hoizer. Although both are
young men they have already distiln-
guished themselves in their own fields
and when they say that they have been
SO successful in their experiments that
they reputation upon the assertion
that stake their they will soon be able
to prove the possib ility of telephoning
clined to reject the statement as the
dream of visionary.
They have already takea 5000 miles
| Of wire and have subjected it to the
same pressure and the same conditions
| as nearly rs possible as those OF the
ocean, and succeeded in sending mes
sage over these coils of wire. They
have subjected the invention to every
| possible test and it has not failed
| them. Among other tests they have
submerged the spindle on which the
wire was placed and have subjected
the wire to heavy pressure. On an
| other occasion they emerged the
spindle and made it revolve at the rate
of ten or twelve revolutions a minute.
In each case the result was the same,
| the sound WAS carried from one end to
the other OF the wire with the great
est distinctness. Every test that any
one could think of has been tried, but
on no occasion has the invention failed
to meet every requirement. Natural
ly such successful tests have made the
two young inventors very con-
fident that failure is impossible.
ABANDONED BY EDISON, SR.
Several years ago the senior Edison
took up the subject of submarine tele-
phony but finally discarded it because
it presented too many obstacles. To
his mind the only means of conveying q
telephone message across the ocean
successfully would be by the erection
of relay stations every hundred miles.
To do this would be so expensive that
the cost would render the scheme al
most impracticable.
Another inventor who has attempted
to master this problem is Nikola Tesla.
He madea careful study of the ques-
ton and at last dismissed 1t with the
opinion that successful transatlantic
telephony would not be possible until
wires had been solved. Tesla found
til at the chief difficulty In the way OF
submarine telephony did not lie in the
static capacity of the cable but was
due to the fact that the electric vibra-
tions were too easily distorted by the
waves.
GIT is BOUND TO COME"
In speaking of the new invention Mr..
Edison says:
"Telephoning across the ocean is
bound to come. There Is absolutely no
reason why it should rot be done and
the cost could be made much cheaper
than telegrapy. l do not mean to say
that we have perfected the invention
to such a degree that the system can
be operated as perfectly as upon land.
That Is impossible at present and it
may be some time before it can be
done, but our experiments have proved
that it will be done eventually.
''One feature that we shall certainly
have perfected, however, will be the
receiver. This is the most important
part of the entire mechanism and We
have spent a great deal of time over 1t.
We intend that it shall be as delicate
as possible. It will be extremely large
and Will be SO finely adjusted that it
will receive every impression. l have
devoted much time to this adjustment. |
for realize how difficult it will be to |
make such an instrument receive some |
sounds just as they are pronounced"
Efforts are already being made to
persuade the young men to organize a
company to assist them in carrying
their work to the earliest possible COM
pletion. OF course this will eventually
be done but not until the inventors
have been able to demonstrate to the
world that they have positively over
come the problem of submarine tele-
phony. They will know just what
hey are disposing of and will be able
20 profit accordingly. In the mean
lime survey of the bottom of the
POTION of the ocean at the shallowest
points will be made that the cables
nay be anchored on the highest e1e-
7ations.
In regard to the amount that it will
cost to carry out such an experiment as
will be necessary in order to make an
.bsolutely perfect test of the new in
'ention Mr.. Edison is silent, but from
he interest that the commercial world
las taken in the invention since the
ime when 1t was first announced, there
8 no reason to doubt that the requisite
mount will be forthcoming as soon as
he two young inventors are ready to
how the world that they really have
that is worth while. II one
nay judge by their enthusiasm, that
sy will not be far distant.
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Just received carload of dried fruits,