Show THIS 15 THE LATEST A Man Who Proposes to Telephone Across the Sen CHICAGO March 27A special to the TimesHerald from New York says C D Vaughn manager of the Western Union telegraph station at the foot of Fiftyflfth street says he has about completed an invention by the use of which it will be possible to telephone across the ocean He says telephone the use of his invention he has distinctly heard over a wire the ticking of a watch 1500 miles away tcklng reason it is impossible to telephone tele-phone more than a thousand miles by the Bell method said Mr Vaughn is because the induction coil and transmitters now in use will not stand a greater electric power than six volts coming from four cells After years of experiment I have succeeded in pert per-t an improved combination of induction in-duction coil and transmitter that will i permit the use of forty and fifty volts I and about thirty to forty cells I Mr Vaughn said he would apply to i the Western Union company soon for I permission to experiment over their wires |