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Show i PETER COOPER HEWITT Wireless conversations between Europe and America at low cost, the j transmission from one city to another of every sound uttered during an opera performance, power to converse daily, without leaving home, with a friend crossing the Atlantic, and, principally for military purposes at present, ability to keep up steady conversation con-versation between a dirigible and persons per-sons on land, or between heads of allied al-lied armies with none but the two persons talking able to catch J. syllable sylla-ble of the conversation tnese are some of the things a New York inventor's inven-tor's lS-year study of mercury vapor in a vacuum now promises to add to the marvels of science. The inventor is Peter Cooper Hewitt, a slender, studious-looking, middle-aged man who saves 40 minutes min-utes of each day by having his tea served in one of his five laboratories high up in the tower of Madison j Square garden, in New York city. He 1 A can't waste the time it would take to go out, he says. Tbe elevator boys call his five floors for he occujies every inch of them the wizard's den. Mr. Hewitt is the son of the late Mayor Hewitt of New York city and tbe grandson of the Pete Cooper whose statue stands 5ust south of Cooper Union. His ancestors were French and English. I |