Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1915 — TALKS UNDER THE WATER [ARTICLE]

TALKS UNDER THE WATER

American Inventor Gives Demonstration of Now Telephone in London Theater. London. —Capt. Louis Sorcho, an American Inventor, gave a demonstration at the Empire theater recently of the practicability of a submarine telephone which, after years of experiment, he claims to have so far perfected that by its means a diver in deep water may talk with anyone on the surface. The performance was carried out, under Captain Sorcho’s direction, by a member of the staff of the Evening News, who, putting on the diving dress with helmet, belt and the rest of the ponderous equipment, weighing 266 pounds, had the telephone receivers attached to his ears and descended Into a glass-fronted tank with a depth of about ten feet of water. From this he sent and received messages to the newspaper office and also spoke to spectators apparently without difficulty by means of ordinary Instruments with special attachments. While the demonstrator was in the tank George Graves, the comedian, conversed with him on the telephone, causing amusement by some personal banter.

After two immersions of afloat ten minutes each, the experimenter was released from his helmet and diving accouterments nothing the worse for his experience except that his hands, which were uncovered under water, were very cold. The temperature of the tfater was 46 degrees centigrade.