Show S TRANSATLANTIC TR NS lIC PHONE s Son Thinks He Bc Has flea Solved the Problem S Electricity Air Mr Thomas Edison Edi n jr thinks t links that he and a friend of his have solved the problem of or telephoning aero the ocean an To a representative of or the New York Commercial he is IB reported p as say Sll jar Iner S Contrary to tho the general impression we have found lound that it will not take a avery aver very ver powerful current curre t to send a a men mee sage across the theo ocean oce We have taken tak 1 more than titan miles of wire and sub it to the sam pressure and same sante j conditions a ae nearly as possible as those of the ocean and we found that our oUt devices Were vere successful We Ve sub submerged submerged submerged merged the spindle On which the wire was and subjected tho the wire to a heavy and at same time made the spindle revolve at tho the rate of ten tenor tenor 1 or twelve revolutions a minute It was i found that the sounds were cn carried 1 I very distinctly oc or course we wo do not expect export to rend feM a ii message straight across acro any apy delay for that would be impossible lm with our present conditions of electrical devices It has been decided that ofte ohe relay station in the ocean will wUl be sufficient and there the message ge m M will be b resent by a me mechanical device It will be noticed that in the above Intel view Hr Mr Edison E ison jr ji j dean doeg I t state stale how he be proposes to overcome the tIltS difficulties cul es that have heretofore made long Jong distance ocean telephony Impossible With but one relay station located in a message would have to travel a distance of about miles whre up to the present pr nt time owing to static stat induction in long submarine telephone cables which as is well known changes the quick short sound wave into long Ion slow low vibrations im impossible impossible possible for lor the human ear ocr to detect d te t it has hos been found lourid Impracticable to tomake tomake tomake make use u of telephone cables over oyer thirty miles in length Possibly Mr Edison jr has discovered a new force or some property of electricity hereto heretofore fore unknown for lor as his father once said Nobody will be able to telephone directly from Europe to America until I some force foree more powerful than dec elec electricity has ha 8 been discovered vered Is it like likely likely likely ly that the son will succeed S where the I father fathe failed freely acknowledges S he has hag |